Natural disasters

In Galicia more than 95,000 hectares have been burned in the summer forest fires, but only three active fires of more than 20 hectares remain, two in Ourense and one in Lugo.

Pedro Sánchez will approve the measure in the Council of Ministers and create an inter-ministerial committee on climate change to strengthen the response to the crisis.

Six fires remain at the highest level of gravity and two have been declared this very Sunday. The positive development of the last few days has allowed six others to be taken under control. However, rising temperatures, coupled with reduced humidity and wind, complicate the situation again.

It's been two decades since hurricane Katrina hit the southeast of the United States, leaving 2,000 dead and billions of dollars of material losses across several countries for eight days, causing the biggest massacre in New Orleans. 

The Kilauea volcano in Hawaii has erupted again by throwing a lava arch into the air. Lava has reached a high altitude and spread over a section of the summit crater. This is the 31st eruption since December, making Kilauea one of the most active volcanoes in the world.

He reportedly participated as a volunteer in the fire extinguishment work in the town of Cipérez (Salamanca) and died days after being hospitalized for smoke inhalation. 

Three new spotlights have been detected in Galicia, the situation has worsened in the Leonese region of Bierzo. More towns have been ordered to vacate eta. A total of 403,171 hectares have been burned in Spain by 2025, according to Copernicus.

The forest fires in Spain are being the protagonists of the summer, so demonstrations have been held in Galicia and Ponferrada to denounce the situation in the territory and to call for the resignation of the local government.

There are still about 20 active foci in Castilla León, Galicia and Extremadura, and the wind is making it difficult to extinguish the fire at various points, while the rain that has fallen in the last few hours in northern León has helped to control the flames around the Peaks of Europe. On the other hand, the firefighters displaced from the ACV have taken their way home.

Extinction work is currently under way in the municipality of Fasgar (Leon), where thousands of hectares of fire have been burned, with a capacity of 1,000 litres.

According to data released this Wednesday by the European Union programme Copernicus, the European Fire Information System (EFFIS), the area burned in 2025 is significantly higher than the 42 615 hectares burned in 2024 in 219 forest fires.

Since the start of the monsoon season, 706 people have died as a result of heavy rains in Pakistan, according to the latest official data. Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif has pledged to protect the affected areas and has announced that members of his cabinet will donate a month's salary to finance relief work.

A total of 58 firefighters from the Basque Autonomous Community (CAV) have travelled to Castilla y León to assist in the control of forest fires following the Board's request for assistance to the Basque Government, while 24 professionals from Navarra have travelled to Asturias.

Around a thousand people in León have protested against the management carried out so far and have called for resignations, as well as the declaration of level 3 emergency, so that the management would be transferred from the Junta de Castilla y León to the Spanish Government.

In particular, the measure was taken after the Junta de Castilla y León requested assistance from the Basque Government Eusko Jaurlaritza, thus joining the helicopter recently sent to help put out the fires.

Thus, four people have already died as a result of the fires on the Iberian peninsula, three of them in the province of León, where the fourth victim died on Tuesday from burns in Tres Cantos (Madrid).

At least 320 people dead  Northof Pakistan caused by sudden rains  Khyber Pakhtunkhwa has been the most battered province, with most victims and dozens missing.

The Krasheninnikov volcano, located on the Russian peninsula of Kamchatka, erupted this Sunday after hundreds of years of inactivity and after the 8.8 magnitude earthquake on the Richter scale on Wednesday, with more than 10 notable earthquakes in the area over the past 24 hours.

Russia cancels the tsunami alert and remains alert in Central and South America, although alarms have been removed in most cases.