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Video of woman after rescue from flash floods in Turkey

00:55 Heavy rains triggered massive floods in the eastern city of Baskale, Turkey where one woman was reportedly saved from the torrent of mud and water. Heavy rains washed away propert

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Heatwaves, wildfires and extreme weather leave people improvising

Click arrows to view gallery Extreme and dangerous weather is leaving people improvising in different parts of the world.Residents of Ghatal in the Paschim Medinip

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Death toll in Turkey wildfires rises to 8, coastal resorts affected

The death toll from wildfires on Turkey's southern coast rose to eight on Sunday as firefighters battled for a fifth day to contain blazes still raging in coastal resort towns.Two more people died on

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Climate change making forests more vulnerable to wildfires

03:15 With wildfires devastating vast swathes of the U.S. West, President Joe Biden ​is calling for 'urgent action' to respond to conditions and mitigate the continued threat.He met Fri

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California’s resilient volunteer firefighter

03:17 The largest wildfire in California has destroyed at least 42 structures and it continues to threaten thousands more, as it continues to expand in size.The state has allocated near

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Deadly wildfires tear across Turkish resort towns on the Mediterranean

Three people area dead and over 58 hospitalized following a string of wildfires in Turkey’s Mediterranean and southern Aegean regions. All the deaths were near the coast

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More fire crews sent to fight wildfires on across West coast

02:58 Fire crews are battling dozens ofwildfires across thewesterncoastof the United States.InCalifornia,wildfires have already scorchedthreetimes more land than in the same period of l

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Wildfires scar western United States

00:47 Firefighters in the western United States are out in force to control the growing number of wildfires burning the region. Along with the blazes, many are facing excessive heat, dr

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Western US, Europe facing devastating wildfires

Wildfires are burning through much of the Western U.S., with thousands of firefighters trying to battle blazes that have destroyed homes and forced thousands to evacuate.Countries in Europe have been

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Extreme drought fueling historic blazes

02:02 Fire crews are battling dozens of wildfires across the western coast of the United States.InCalifornia, wildfires have already scorched three times more land than in the same peri

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Hot and dry summer sees large, high intensity wildfires

Click arrows to view gallery Drier than average conditions in many, often unexpected parts of the world are leading to tinderbox conditions that result in wildfire

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Largest U.S. wildfire already has consumed 120,000 hectares

01:35 There are currently 80 large wildfires raging in 13 states across the U.S., burning more than 1.1 million acres, mostly in western states, according to the National Interagency Fi

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Western wildfires: California blaze crosses into Nevada

A Northern California wildfire crossed into Nevada, prompting new evacuations, but better weather has been helping crews battling the nation’s largest blaze in southern

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Colorado residents living near forest pay huge price

04:28 This fire season in the United States is shaping up to be catastrophic.It is an anxious time in Colorado. The state is still coming to grips with the worst wildfires in the state'

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Scientists warn worsening climate change will decimate forests

03:44 The U.S.just suffered through its hottest June ever. There are legions of scientists blaming the scorching conditions on a record number of wildfires tearing through the AmericanW

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US west heatwave: 31 million people brace for record-breaking temperatures

More than 31 million people across the US west and south-west are bracing for a brutal heatwave that could bring triple-digit temperatures this weekend, with authoritie

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Verizon demos THOR, its new vehicle for frontline rapid humanitarian response

The increasingly intense heats bearing down feverishly across the globe are accelerating the number, scale, and complexity of disasters worldwide. Just in the past few weeks, we have seen record heat