Northwestern Portugal also has other factors working against it when it comes to increasing fire risk, said Henrique Pereira dos Santos, a Portuguese landscape architect. Unlike parts of Greece ...

Portugal has brought under control the remaining forest fires it battled this week in the north of the country, rescuers said on Friday. The wildfires, which sprang up over the weekend fed by ...

The death toll from two weeks of record blazes rose to 16 when a firefighter, who had been burned in a forest fire in central Portugal last week, died of his injuries late Wednesday night.

Mobile phones in Portugal have been sent a text warning of ... The messages warned those in rural areas not to start any form of fires. The government has also restricted access to forests and ...

Portugal is observing three days of mourning for dozens of victims of a forest fire in the central forested region of Pedrógão Grande. AFP/Getty Images The wildfire seen in Penela, near Coimbra.

Portugal entered a state ... at midnight on Sunday after weeks of fires that destroyed more than 28,000 hectares in the Serra da Estrela mountains. The alert, announced on Friday but formalised ...

Ukraine has offered its assistance to Portugal amid wildfires raging in the country. Source: Ihor Klymenko, Ukraine’s Minister of Internal Affairs, on Telegram, as reported by European Pravda ...

The northern and central regions of mainland Portugal remain engulfed in flames, with the Aveiro district seeing the largest deployment of firefighting personnel, despite a calmer outlook. The fires ...

Santos, meanwhile, suffered burns on his arm and shoulder. He is one of many dispirited locals in northern Portugal who on Thursday were taking stock of the damage wreaked by powerful forest fires ...