Hundreds of firefighters in Portugal have been battling a massive wildfire raging in a municipality near the capital Lisbon with high temperatures and strong winds making it difficult to contain the blaze.

Firefighters were battling California's largest wildfire of the summer on Monday.

Thousands of Californians are forced to evacuate as a wildfire spreads to Yosemite National Park.

Europe is grappling with a blistering heat wave and raging wildfires, blamed on climate change.

Thousands of firefighters battled more than 20 blazes that raged on Wednesday across Portugal and western Spain, menacing villages and disrupting tourists' holidays amid a heat wave that pushed temperatures above 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) in some parts of Europe.

At least one person has died and three firefighters have been injured after massive wildfires spread across the southwestern region of the United States.

An elderly couple died in their home as they tried to evacuate a wildfire in Ruidoso, New Mexico.

A fierce, wind-driven wildfire destroyed hundreds of homes, injured at least a half dozen people and prompted the evacuation of tens of thousands of residents in and around two towns east of the Rockies near Denver, authorities said on Thursday.

A lawyer for the group says he's disappointed the Biden administration is continuing the “obstructionist tactics” of the Trump administration, which first announced the plans last year.

Fires stoked by hot winds sweeps through southern Italy.