Description
Added on the 25/08/2023 11:54:17 - Copyright : Euronews EN
Images of animals in the burned rainforest of the Pantanal de Otuquis National Park, in Bolivia. IMAGES
Aerial images show how blazes that have raged largely unchecked over the past month in Bolivia have devastated large swaths of forest and grassland. IMAGES
Images show emergency services on site near a roadway that collapsed due to heavy floods, near the city of Volos and flooded areas in Palamas near Karditsa. Storms have killed at least 14 people in Greece, Turkey and Bulgaria, with a Greek region hit by more rain in 24 hours than it normally sees in a year, officials say. IMAGES
Fires in Greece this summer will burn an area of at least 150,000 hectares (370,600), the Greek prime minister says including a large fire in the north which has been burning for nearly two weeks. The area ravaged by fires "will exceed 1,500,000,000 square metres (150,000 hectares)... the most serious one was the one at Dadia forest", says Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis, referring to the forest fire that the EU has branded the largest ever recorded in the bloc. SOUNDBITE
Houses, cars are burnt to ashes in the city of Lahaina, on the Hawaiian island of Maui, after the deadliest fire in the region. IMAGES
Images show an area near the village of Navi on the Greek island of Rhodes left charred by wildfires, which have raged around the country for weeks. Hundreds of firefighters backed by European Union reinforcements have been struggling to contain the flames on Rhodes, as well as on the islands of Corfu and Evia, in addition to a new front that erupted on July 26 in central Greece. IMAGES