Greece Wildfires

On Thursday, the Prime Minister of Greece revealed plans to deploy drones and forest temperature sensors to detect wildfires in their early stages. The announcement came amid an ongoing crisis that has seen vast swaths of the country engulfed in...

Fires were burning through Saturday night on Andros island and fronts are still active for a 9th day in the Evros area, northeastern Greece.

On Wednesday, Greek President Katerina Sakellaropoulou thanked the foreign nations that provided Greece with assistance in combating the spread of wildfires which have caused scenes of devastation in parts of the country. The President sent letters expressing her gratitude to...

Greece heatwave peaks while wildfires on the island of Rhodes continue to rage out of control on Sunday morning.

According to the Meteo service of the National Observatory of Athens, smoke from wildfires in Canada has reached Greece. Satellites captured imagery of the smoke in the Ionian Sea and Crete. Canadian are worried that this could be the worst...

The wildfire at Dadia National Park in Evros stretched into a fifth day on Monday, threatening more destruction at the 43,000-hectare (106,000-acre) preserve. The park is considered one of the most important protected areas in Greece, Europe, and the...

Last week's massive wildfire that started in densely-forested Mount Penteli just outside of Athens burned over 2,750 hectares or about 6,800 acres. New damage totals are in from the blaze, which took hundreds of firefighters two days to contain and...

At least four large fires are cutting a path of destruction across Greece on Saturday, burning homes and businesses, forcing evacuations, pushing into beach resorts, and scorching protected forests and parks. Strong winds and temperatures in the mid-30s Celsius (mid-90s...

Firefighters on Saturday continued to battle a wildfire at Dadia–Lefkimi–Soufli Forest National Park in Evros that had burned 800 hectares of forest, nearly 2,000 acres, by Friday night. The protected area, home to dozens of animals and four hundred plant...

A record-high temperature of 41° Celsius—105.8° Fahrenheit—predicted in England on Monday is part of a heatwave across Europe that has sparked devastating wildfires and prompted evacuations. The intense heat has led to deadly wildfires in Portugal, where at least 238...