fires in Spain

The climate crisis has increased the likelihood of this summer's devastating wildfires by 40 times.

Environment | 04/09/2025

Firefighters are battling the blaze in Oímbra, where the fires continue to ravage the province of Ourense and have already burned more than 62,000 hectares.

How many people arrested for starting fires this August ended up in prison?

Society | 30/08/2025

A firefighter during firefighting operations this August in the province of León.

Conditions are improving for combating the twenty or so active fires in Spain: could such a serious incident have been avoided?

Society | 22/08/2025

Soldiers and firefighters remove straw bales from a cultivated field in A Gudiña, in the province of Ourense.

Flames threaten Galicia's oldest forest

Society | 19/08/2025

Smoke from the fire in Quiroga, one of the main sources of the blaze that has so far burned more than 20,000 hectares in the eastern regions of Ourense and Lugo.

More than 31,100 evacuees evacuated due to the fires in the state: "You're leaving with fear, with helplessness."

Society | 19/08/2025

Residents are working together to stop the spread of the flames around the Picos de Europa mountains in the Tierra de la Reina area of León, where the Barniedo de la Reina fire has forced the evacuation of several towns and the transfer of evacuees to shelters in Riaño.

Fires: more prevention and less denialism

Editorial | 18/08/2025

Fires and the political temperature

Editorial | 13/08/2025