State of emergency to allow government to send more money, people to help bring blazes under control, minister says.

State of emergency to allow government to send more money, people to help bring blazes under control, minister says.
For millions of New Yorkers in the concrete jungle and beyond, the spate of wildfires at their backdoor was unthinkable.
Lancet report says average person experienced 50 more days of dangerous temperatures than normal due to climate crisis.
More than 27 million lives affected by worst drought in a century, with 21 million children malnourished, says WFP.
Climate change and below-average rainfall have left the Rio Negro and other rivers at their shallowest levels ever.
The blazes have consumed thousands of hectares of the Brasilia National Park.
The country is facing its worst drought in decades and people are going hungry, officials say.
Head of regional bloc SADC says 17 percent of people across region in need of aid amid climate change-fuelled drought.
Zimbabwe, Malawi and Zambia are among the countries in Southern Africa most affected by malnutrition caused by drought.
Crisis brought on by El Nino and climate change will affect more than a million families, President Hakainde Hichilema says.
Blackened corpses scar a landscape where the rains have been more than six weeks late.
Natural disasters and extreme weather events killed and displaced tens of thousands of people across the world.
Communities that rely on the rainforest’s waterways now find themselves struggling with fire and plunging water levels.
The shocks from a relentless climate crisis have upended the lives of millions in Somalia and the Horn of Africa region.