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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau made a surprise visit to Kyiv on Saturday despite political scandals and raging wildfires at home.

The mayor of Montreal, Valérie Plante, told reporters on Wednesday that her city had offered the provincial government of Quebec to send firefighters to help control the over 100 wildfires spreading in the region and engulfing the American Northeast and Midwest in smoke – but Quebec refused them.

There will be no respite from the thick, hazardous wildfire smoke that’s disrupting daily life for millions of people across the U.S. East Coast and Midwest anytime soon, a specialist meteorologist forecast Thursday.

Smoke from Canadian wildfires is pouring into the U.S. East Coast and Midwest and covering the capitals of both nations in an unhealthy haze.

Wildfire smoke stemming from Canada is triggering air quality health advisories to various areas of the country, including New York.

A 54-year-old man was arrested by police for allegedly causing at least 19 forest fires in the province of Cáceres over the last two years.

A northern California church is helping evacuees of the Mosquito wildfire with any necessities they may need as thousands begin to return home.

Oregon’s Portland General Electric (PGE) and Pacific Power are cutting power in several counties amid a high wind and wildfire threat, affecting approximately 40,000 people.

German police have identified four shisha-smoking Iraqi migrants as suspects in a forest fire in Saxony that took place last month and devastated the Saxon Switzerland National Park.

POLK COUNTY, Texas — A firefighter survived the crash of his aircraft into Lake Livingston while scooping up water to dump on a wildfire. An onlooker witnessed the crash and jumped in his boat to rescue the injured pilot.

A 37-year-old volunteer fireman, forestry officer, and former deputy mayor in France has admitted he was behind several fires.

A wildfire near the Yosemite National Park known as the Oak Fire neared 16,000 acres on Sunday and with 0% containment.

The wildfires ravaging vast parts of Europe for the past week have taken an unusual toll on Pearl Jam. Band members were forced to cancel a show in Vienna on Wednesday, after front man Eddie Vedder’s voice was damaged during a performance in France.

PG&E has put in place a controversial plan to limit wildfires by using computerization to shut power down after threats.

Firefighters in Greece on Sunday were battling a wildfire for a second day in two suburbs of the capital of Athens.

Firefighting crews saved an abandoned creature found laying in the ashes of a massive wildfire in New Mexico.

The U.S. Forest Service took responsibility after an internal investigation for two blazes that merged to become New Mexico’s largest wildfire . 

Weather conditions have caused wildfires to spread in Texas, resulting in evacuations of some communities, but so far no one was reported injured on Friday.

“The number of major wildfires worldwide will rise sharply in coming decades due to global warming,” an article in Barron’s predicted Wednesday, based on a February 23 report by the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP).

A wildfire known as the Colorado Fire continued to burn in the scenic Big Sur area of California, jumping over Highway 1 and threatening the area near the iconic Bixby Bridge.

Arson has not been ruled out as a possible cause of the Colorado wildfires that have ravaged Boulder County, destroying an estimated 1,000 homes.

Colorado’s wildfires are shaping up to be the most destructive fires in state history in terms of property damage, according to reports.

Wildfires have torn their way through Colorado over the past 48-hours leaving tens of thousands of people homeless, countless properties destroyed and a state of emergency declared late Thursday night.

As the U.N.’s COP26 summit gets underway on Sunday, a lone voice is pushing back on the existential threat of so-called climate change.

After two consecutive winters of drought, Californians are hoping that a new forecast for heavy rain will be fulfilled. The San Francisco Chronicle reported Wednesday that a storm could bring two inches of rain to the state October 20 through 24.

The Alisal fire in Santa Barbara County, California, is threatening the ranch once owned by the late President Ronald Reagan.

White House staff cut the video feed during a briefing with federal and state fire officials while Biden was in the middle of a sentence.

Hundreds of protesters showed up to demonstrate against President Joe Biden as he arrived in Boise, Idaho, on Monday.

The wildfires raging in the western United States are not caused by climate change but by “eco-imperialists” who oppose forest management that could prevent natural seasonal fires from becoming massive and destructive wildfires, experts said Thursday on a call with reporters.

Green authorities arrested 24 members of the far-left group known as “Rubicon” for allegedly storming the Environmental Ministry.

Larry Elder, Republican candidate for governor of California, said black and Hispanic Californians want to recall Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA).

Firefighters are trying to keep the Caldor wildfire from engulfing the iconic Lake Tahoe recreation area where millions of people visit each year.

Raging wildfires in Sicily and Calabria are being blamed on arsonists, with one Italian mayor offering a five-year tax exemption to those who can identify any of the alleged arsonists behind the fires.

Gavin Newsom failed California in managing the cost of living, crime, education, energy, homelessness, and wildfires, Kevin Faulconer said.

Bishop Giuseppe Marciante of Cefalù publicly “excommunicated” those responsible for devastating wildfires on the Italian island of Sicily in recent weeks.

THRAKOMAKEDONES, Greece (AP) – Wildfires rampaged through Greek forests for yet another day Saturday, threatening homes and triggering more evacuations a day after hundreds of people were plucked off beaches by ferries in a dramatic overnight rescue.