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The North Africa wildfires started on 24 July 2023 primarily in Algeria with at least 97 blazes, killing at least 34 (with 10 soldiers), injuring 26, mobilising 7,500 firefighters and 350 firetrucks with aerial support, [1][2][3] forcing thousands of evacuations primarily in El Taref Province with blazes also reported in Tunisia and Morocco. [4 ...
The 2023 wildfire season involves wildfires on multiple continents. Below is an ongoing list of articles on wildfires from around the world in the year 2023. Africa
The 2023–2024 El Niño was regarded as the fifth-most powerful El Niño–Southern Oscillation event in recorded history, resulting in widespread droughts, flooding and other natural disasters across the globe. The onset was declared on 4 July 2023 by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) [1][2][3][4] It was estimated that the most ...
The 2023 wildfire season in the Europe was among the worst this century, according to a European Commission report published on Wednesday. Last year, more than half a million (504,002) hectares ...
The 2021 Table Mountain fire (also known as the Rhodes Memorial fire[2] or Cape Town fire[3][4]) is a major fire that started on 18 April 2021 [5] in and around Table Mountain National Park and the neighbourhoods of Newlands, [2] Rosebank, Mowbray and Rondebosch in Cape Town, South Africa. The damage to sites in the Table Mountain area included ...
This record was broken in the 2019/2020 Black Summer. Black Friday bushfires of 1939 (Victoria) with 2 million hectares burnt. Black Sunday bushfires of 1955 (South Australia) 1961 Western Australian bushfires with 1,800,000 hectares burnt. Black Tuesday bushfires of 1967 (Tasmania) with 260,000 hectares burnt.
The 2020–present Horn of Africa drought is an ongoing drought that hit the countries of Somalia, Ethiopia, and Kenya. The rainy season of 2022 was recorded to be the driest in over 40 years, [3][4] with an estimated 43,000 in Somalia dying in 2022. [5][6] As of 2023, the region is now in its 5th failed rainy season [7] and a 6th failed season ...
The Aug. 8, 2023, wildfire that burned down Lahaina and killed 102 people was started when downed power lines reenergized at about 6 :34 a.m. ignited overgrown vegetation that violated the county ...