Chile confirmed 19 deaths and 1,500 people affected as large-scale wildfires continue across the country’s south, triggering curfews and emergency measures.

Chile has declared a State of Catastrophe in Ñuble and Bío Bío as forest fires burn thousands of hectares and prompt evacuations.

Temperatures have reached 96.8 °F in Santiago, exceeding historical averages. On Wednesday, the Chilean National Disaster Prevention and Response Service (Senapred) reported that the country is closing 2025 with a record-breaking heat wave in its central region, which set a red alert for extreme risk of forest fires. RELATED: COP30 Seeks to Advance Climate Finance […]

In the Cordillera, localities such as Caacupé, Atyrá, and Santa Elena have suffered severe damage, with reports of between eight and 15 hectares of vegetation consumed by the flames in each area. Related: Ecuador: 17 Active Forest Fires In Paraguay, the environmental situation has become alarming, with at least 29 active forest fires that have […]

More than 20,000 dead animals left behind so far the 1,994 forest fires that have occurred in 19 provinces of Ecuador since the beginning of the year, which have caused the loss of more than 18,300 hectares of vegetation. RELATED: Ecuador: 1,174 Hectares of Forest Destroyed by Fire in the Southern Andes National Risk Management […]

The National Secretariat for Risk Management (SNGR) of Ecuador announced this Sunday that they have reinforced actions to try to extinguish a large forest fire still active in the parish of Sa Antonio de las Aradas in the municipality of Quilanga, in the province of Loja, in the south of the country. RELATED: Colombia: Great […]

On Wednesday, Guatemalan civil protection authorities counted 92 active fires, almost half of them in the north of the country, specifically in the department of Petén.