WWF is restoring areas in Portugual destroyed by forest fires by planting fire-resistant cork oak trees. Lisbon, Portugal – WWF, together with the Reforestation Commision in Algarve, launched the ...

Columns of smoke rise from a forest wildfire in Góis, Portugal, on June 20 ... California off the map. Castellnou and Tiago Oliveira, the Portuguese national fire chief, are part of a new ...

Several thousand firefighters on Sunday (10 July) battled wildfires in Portugal that authorities say have injured at least 29 people. The fires come amid an exhausting heatwave, with temperatures ...

To help locals and holidaymakers stay safe, a live map has ... south of Portugal - where a Municipal Emergency Plan has been activated and over 800 firefighters are dealing with the forest inferno.

Look closely, and the forest reveals ... “It’s just cork, but it has a big story,” he says. Endemic to southwestern Europe, they’re the national tree of Portugal, protected by law since ...

5000 firefighters were battling multiple forest fires and several bush fires in central and northern Portugal Sunday following a punishing heatwave, prompting the government to implement a ...

Portugal's firefighters have mastered most of the deadly forest fires in the north of the country, according to official data on Thursday. And improving weather conditions have raised hopes that ...

Portugal, the world's leading cork producer, is finding new uses for the material, from footwear to furniture, as demand for wine bottle stoppers wanes. Producers highlight the environmentally ...

stools and shelves using cork from Portugal. The Lisbon metro in 2020 replaced the fabric lining on all seats of its train fleet with cork, an easier to maintain material. Builders have been drawn ...