The blazes, which escalated over the weekend, mark one of the worst fire outbreaks in recent years. With the situation ...

A satellite image released by the NASA Earth Observatory shows a vast plume of smoke emanating from the fast-moving ...

Gareth Roberts captured this image of fire looming over Portugal as he sought shelter Eventually we reached the small village at a crossroads surrounded by fire. Locals and ourselves were crying ...

Portugal has brought under control the remaining forest fires it battled this week in the north of the country, rescuers said on Friday. The wildfires, which sprang up over the weekend fed by ...

Portugal has declared three days of mourning for the 62 victims of one of the country's deadliest forest fires. Four children are among the victims, many of whom were found dead inside their cars ...

What appeared to be a fireball may have been a decommissioned SpaceX satellite creating a fiery spectacle as it broke up above Earth's atmosphere.

The death toll from two weeks of record blazes rose to 16 when a firefighter, who had been burned in a forest fire in central Portugal last week, died of his injuries late Wednesday night.

Northwestern Portugal also has other factors working against it when it comes to increasing fire risk, said Henrique Pereira dos Santos, a Portuguese landscape architect. Unlike parts of Greece ...

After seeing the Romanian Ghe-O Rescue, we couldn't think of a more ultimate fire truck, but a reader – and volunteer firefighter – from Portugal aimed to prove us wrong. Meet the Jacinto ...

The atmospheric phenomenon, technically known as a circumhorizontal arc, only occurs at precise locations under specific conditions.

The Ecotopia Ativa Association is promoting a round table on Friday at the Casa do Povo in Santa Catarina da Fonte do Bispo, in the municipality of Tavira, to discuss the issue of rural fires.

It’s also worth noting that space heaters can be dangerous. In the US alone, there are more than 1,000 home fires each year, according to the Consumer Product Safety Commission. Though we try to ...