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BRUSSELS: The European Union wants to sign contracts this year for up to 12 firefighting planes, the first it would fully own, to improve its ability to fight blazes fuelled by climate change, the bloc's head of crisis management said. The…

<!-- -->A Greek firefighting plane crashed Tuesday while battling a forest fireRhodes, Greece: A Greek water-bombing plane crashed Tuesday while battling a forest fire on the island of Evia as hundreds of firefighters struggled to…

RHODES: A Greek air forcewater-dropping plane crashed while diving into a wildfire in southern Greece on Tuesday, killing both pilots, as authorities battled blazes that have been raging for days across the country amid a return of heat…

In the video, a fume can be seen coming out of the plane’s engine. (Photo: EPT news)Wildfires have broken out on the island of Rhodes, Evia and Corfu with Rhodes highly impacted as 19,000 were forced to freeA firefighting plane engaged to…

The future of fighting more intense, climate-fuelled wildfires is in a makeshift outdoor laboratory in the Los Angeles suburb of Fullerton, Calif.There, on the grounds of California State University, electrical and computer engineering…

Last Updated: May 12, 2023, 04:35 ISTThe east side of the Paskwa fire (HWF030) burns near Fox Lake, Alberta, Canada May 9, 2023. (Alberta Wildfire/Handout via Reuters)Several Canadian provinces -- as well as the US states of Oregon and…

Visitors test a SK Telecom VR flight simulator during the Mobile World Congress 2023 in Barcelona, Spain, Monday, Feb. 27, 2023. The four-day show kicks off Monday in…

India has witnessed 1.95 lakh forest fires over the past nine years, and uses bambi buckets to extinguish fires, said an executive of American aerospace company Lockheed Martin here at a press conference on Sunday. The interest for…

BRUSSELS: The European Union is in talks with manufacturers to buy firefighting planes to battle the increased risk of severe wildfires like those raging in Southern Europe, the bloc's head of crisis management told Reuters. The EU's…

<!-- -->Greece helicopter crash: Two other crew members were saved, emergency services said. (Representational)Athens: Two people were killed after a firefighting helicopter with four crew members aboard crashed into the sea off…