A fire is raging in the historic Fontainebleau forest south of Paris, prompting evacuations and disrupting traffic. It's part of several wildfires in western Europe during the region's third

The fire in the Fontainebleau forest in Seine-et-Marne is still not under control. While the main blaze, which began burning late on Sunday afternoon, has already swept through nearly 1,500 hectares (15 square kilometres), a second fire broke out on Monday ...

The Ile-de-France regional council this week launched a civil law suit over the recent wildfire which decimated more than 2,000 hectares of the Fontainebleau forest, south of Paris. A criminal

French officials rushed two firefighting planes to the Paris region Sunday, after a fire erupted south of the French capital, disrupting traffic during a busy summer travel weekend and piling more misery on a region sweltering through its latest heatwave.

Naturalists, hikers, and other lovers of the most famous woods in the Paris region are the loss of rich ecosystems and wonder about the future of an area that has long been popular.