Four times more forest burned in Europe than in an average year
This illustration shows the scale and geographic spread of wildfires across Europe as of August 19th /EFFIS/Copernicus
This year, 967,026 hectares of nature have already gone up in flames in the European Union – four times the average (244,011) since measurements began in 2006.
Spain stands out with a staggering 4.4 times increase, or nearly 392,000 hectares of devastated land (and record fire emissions). Port
