{"id":352683,"date":"2025-08-17T22:20:18","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352683\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T22:20:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T22:20:18","slug":"spain-battles-raging-wildfires-amid-weekslong-heatwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/352683\/","title":{"rendered":"Spain battles raging wildfires amid weekslong heatwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spain is deploying 500 more soldiers to fight wildfires ravaging the country, as southern Europe faces a wave of extreme climate events fueled by heatwaves. <\/p>\n<p>Nearly all of Spain on Sunday was under extreme risk of wildfires, which have burned through around 390,000 acres this year \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/europe-spain-portugal-wildfires-climate-34057085cfe89c3107b65bd7cc9767cc\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">roughly the size of metropolitan London<\/a> \u2014 as oppressive temperatures have also seen fires break out in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lemonde.fr\/en\/environment\/article\/2025\/08\/16\/climate-change-southern-europe-scorched-by-flames-and-extreme-heat_6744435_114.html\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Greece, Portugal, and France<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Europe is the world\u2019s fastest-warming continent, and scientists have long warned about the worsening severity and scale of climate change-induced extreme weather events. <\/p>\n<p>In Spain, which is especially vulnerable, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2025-08-17\/spain-s-sanchez-calls-for-national-climate-pact-as-fires-rage?srnd=homepage-americas\" class=\"styles_linkEmbed__SNmaX\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">wildfires have become politicized<\/a>, Bloomberg reported: The prime minister on Sunday called for a nationwide pact to combat the accelerating climate emergency.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spain is deploying 500 more soldiers to fight wildfires ravaging the country, as southern Europe faces a wave&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":352684,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-352683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-spain","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-spain"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115046439619867841","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352683\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/352684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}