European wildfires on pace to set record forestland losses this year
The European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS) reported that approximately 660,000 hectares (1,630,000 acres) of land have been ravaged by wildfires since January 1st through August 13th, 2022. That is 56% higher than the previous record set over the same time period in 2017, when 420,913 hectares burned. The EFFIS projects that if 2022 follows a similar path as 2017, Europe is on course to see more than a million hectares of land destroyed. In 2017, it reached 988,087 hectares. “The situation in terms of drought and extremely high temperatures has ...
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