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The 2021 Arizona wildfire season was a series of wildfires that burned across the state of Arizona, United States. Wildfires across the state burned 524,428 acres (212,228 ha) of land in at least 1,773 fires throughout the state, [ 2 ] fueled in part by a drought, hot temperatures, and thunderstorms producing dry lightning .
A deadly wildfire that devastated rural Oaxaca has struck an emotional chord in Los Angeles, home to the largest Indigenous Oaxacan community outside Mexico.
Selva Zoque. Coordinates: 16°56′20.10″N 94°46′18.63″W. Selva Zoque region of Southern Mexico. The Selva Zoque (English: Zoque Forest), which includes the Chimalapas rain forest, is an area of great ecological importance in Mexico. Most of the forest lies in the state of Oaxaca but parts are in Chiapas and Veracruz. [1]
In 2024, 53,302 wildfires detected by the Global Wildfire Information System (GWIS) burned an estimated 37,578,692 hectares (92,858,970 acres) of tropical wetland in Brazil 's Pantanal in Mato Grosso do Sul, the Amazon rainforest, and the Cerrado. [1] According to satellite data from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, the ...
LIMA (Reuters) -Peruvian President Dina Boluarte on Wednesday declared a state of emergency in three regions affected by devastating forest fires that have burned through swathes of the nation's ...
Forest fires were burning in nearly half of Mexico’s drought-stricken states Monday fueled by strong winds. The National Forestry Commission reported 58 active fires in 15 states, including in ...
6.43% [ 3] The Sierra Madre de Oaxaca pine–oak forests is a tropical and subtropical coniferous forests ecoregion in Southern Mexico . It occupies the Sierra Madre de Oaxaca, a mountain range which lies mostly within the state of Oaxaca, and extends north into Puebla and Veracruz states. It is one of a chain of pine–oak forest ecoregions ...
Data from the European Forest Fire Information Service showed that large-scale blazes had burned an area of more than 105,000 hectares (405 square miles) since Saturday, making this year's total ...