Across Europe, successive heatwaves have intensified \u200bdrought and left vegetation tinder-dry, fueling severe wildfires.<\/p>\n
Two people died on Sunday as fires swept \u200bthrough the Greek island of Salamina, while a hundred French firefighters were on \u2060their way to help combat a blaze in Aragon, Spain, which has destroyed 16,600 hectares.<\/p>\n
The blaze \u200bin the High Fens, a nature reserve in the east of Belgium, has been burning since Friday \u200band firefighters from across the country and neighbouring Germany and Luxembourg have sought to contain it, as have the army and farmers. The \u200cfire \u2060is Belgium’s biggest on record, more than double the size of a blaze in 2011 that burned close to 1,400 hectares, data from the European Forest Fire Information System showed.<\/p>\n
Scientists say that human-caused climate change has \u200bincreased the \u2060likelihood of the hot and dry conditions that allow wildfires to spread faster and burn longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Across Europe, successive heatwaves have intensified \u200bdrought and left vegetation tinder-dry, fueling severe wildfires. Two people died on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[7,69,172,17856,17857,17565],"class_list":["post-33060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-belgium","tag-belgium","tag-europe","tag-germany","tag-vov","tag-vovworld","tag-wildfire"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be\/117109881993620191","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}