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Smoke Streams From Wildfires Raging in Madeira


Heat and wind gusts helped the blazes spread through over 5,700 hectares of forest. In mid-August 2024, fires raged on Madeira, a Portuguese island 700 kilometers (430 miles) west of Morocco. As of August 20, the flames had burned more than 5,700 hectares of forest, according to the European Fore

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