Smoke from wildfires raging across Europe has blown thousands of miles causing thick clouds to blot out the sun over swathes of the UK. Spain has been battling 14 major fires driven by high winds that ...

The first official UK wildfire alert of the year has been issued, warning of a "very high" risk across its northern and north-eastern regions of Scotland. The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service, in ...

Heatwaves in the UK have led to unseasonable drying of vegetation bypassing natural ecological processes that limit the spread of wildfires, a new study has found. In a paper published in the journal ...