Fire Regime 火 Fire was a creation of life -- born from oxygen and organic matter -- ignited by lightning. Thus fire has been a fundamental feature of the Earth for at least 400 million years. A scientist talks about fire -- today on Earth and Sky....
By Sabina Castelfranco Rome 25 July 2007 Soaring temperatures and forest fires have forced thousands of holiday-goers in southern Italy to evacuate hotels, campsites and other tourist sites. From Rome, Sabina Castelfranco reports there have been at l...
By Steve Herman New Delhi 29 May 2007 A clash between police officers and villagers in rural northwestern India has resulted in the deathsat least 13 people Tuesday. VOA's Steve Herman reports from New Delhi that the protesters were demanding the rig...
By Naomi Schwarz Dakar 03 May 2007 Gunfire heard overnight across Guinea ended without external intervention. Witnesses say the gunfire came from soldiers agitating for unpaid back wages. Naomi Schwarz has more on the story from VOA's regional bureau...
By Stephanie Ho Washington 08 March 2007 Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch are accusing Iran of increasing persecution and legal prosecution of women's rights activists. As VOA's Stephanie Ho reports, the two groups held a joint news confe...
By Anjana Pasricha New Delhi 07 January 2007 Activists of leftist women organizations protest killing of innocent children in Noida, India, 6 Jan 2006 The bodies of 17 women and children who disappeared over the last two years have been discovered i...
By Robert Berger Jerusalem 12 December 2006 Four people have been wounded in the latest violence between rival Palestinian factions in the Gaza Strip. As Robert Berger reports from VOA's Jerusalem bureau, a deadly shooting incident has set off a wav...
By Chad Bouchard Jakarta, Indonesia 13 November 2006 Conservationists in Indonesia have warned that fires set to clear land have killed and injured hundreds of endangered orangutans. Environmentalists are also concerned the burning of rainforest and...
By Gilbert da Costa Abuja 05 September 2006 Nigeria's anti-graft agency has vowed to press on with corruption investigations in the northern state of Zamfara, despite a recent attack on a government office involved in a fraud probe. The anti-corrupt...
By Paul Sisco Washington, D.C. 23 June 2006 Watch Fire Report With the long hot days of summer in the northern hemisphere come wildfires in many parts of the world. Paul Sisco reports on some new technologies being tried in the United States to dete...