{"id":481413,"date":"2026-05-12T20:19:17","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:19:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481413\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T20:19:17","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T20:19:17","slug":"worst-start-to-wildfire-season-raises-alarm-as-el-nino-threatens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/481413\/","title":{"rendered":"Worst Start to Wildfire Season Raises Alarm as El Ni\u00f1o Threatens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Record-breaking heat and drought have fueled the world\u2019s worst ever start to a wildfire year, as climate change and a developing El Ni\u00f1o threaten to push extreme weather to new heights.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Over the first four months of this year, more than 150 million hectares (579,150 square miles) was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/newsletters\/2026-05-04\/wildfire-season-starts-early-as-drought-fuels-global-fire-risk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">burned<\/a>, according to satellite estimates from the Global Wildfire Information System. That\u2019s an area nearly the size of Alaska and roughly double the seasonal average for this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Record-breaking heat and drought have fueled the world\u2019s worst ever start to a wildfire year, as climate change&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481414,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[1535,394,19500,442,18,440,518,10952,19,31904,18929,17,386,133,4434,1545],"class_list":{"0":"post-481413","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-alaska","9":"tag-argentina","10":"tag-chile","11":"tag-climate-change","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-environment","14":"tag-food","15":"tag-green","16":"tag-ie","17":"tag-imperial-college-london","18":"tag-iran","19":"tag-ireland","20":"tag-japan","21":"tag-science","22":"tag-southeast-asia","23":"tag-war"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116563461268789171","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481413","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=481413"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481413\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}