Ongoing blazes have devoured some 6,000 hectares of forests in northern Corrientes province, officials say.
South American country declares emergency in several central-southern regions as blazes — 56 of them out of control — burn 100 homes, 47,000 hectares of forest and leave at least 13 dead.
The court ruling was related to the death of a man falsely accused of starting forest fires last August, which killed at least 90 people nationwide.
High temperatures exacerbated by global warming made 2022 Northern Hemisphere soil moisture droughts more likely, says a new study.
Sixteen fires are still burning across seven districts but those in worst-hit eastern areas, El Tarf and Souk Ahras, are under control, officials say.
Spain and neighbouring Portugal struggle to fight raging blazes while three firefighters die battling a wildfire in northern Morocco.
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis appoints a new minister in charge of recovery from natural disasters in a bid to defuse growing anger over the struggle to curb wildfires that have charred thousands of hectares of forest.
Several explosions caused by the wildfires were heard by people from Tuesday onwards.
Turkish firefighters, locals and volunteers work at full pace to bring the blazes under control in four southern provinces, with at least eight people killed since the wildfires started on July 28.
Agriculture and Forestry Minister Bekir Pakdemirli says a total of 125 fires have erupted since July 28 and 117 of them have been contained.
President Erdogan thanked Russian counterpart Putin for Russia's allocation of five firefighting aircraft and three more helicopters for supporting Turkey's fight against forest fires across the country, according to a statement.
The US has removed gray wolves from the Endangered Species Act, where they were first listed in the 1970s when their numbers fell to around 1,000. Conservationists now fear for the roughly 6,000 gray wolves when the new rule takes effect in January.
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