Hundreds of wildfires have burned their way through Southern Europe and North Africa this week, with residents of nearby communities forced to flee the billowing smoke and advancing blazes. In France, blazes burned on the island of Corsica and led to road closures near the southern city of Nice. In Greece, hundreds of firefighters have pushed to contain blazes on the mainland and on the islands of Corfu, Evia and Rhodes. Although it is difficult to link any individual event to climate change, experts say that heat waves in Europe are increasing in frequency and intensity. That extreme weather, firefighters fear, is driving circumstances that will make extinguishing blazes in the future more difficult and dangerous.

Source: The North Africa Journal July 28, 2023 04:11 UTC