{"id":379475,"date":"2025-08-28T05:01:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379475\/"},"modified":"2025-08-28T05:01:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-28T05:01:11","slug":"wildfires-in-europe-record-burning-in-spain-and-portugal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/379475\/","title":{"rendered":"Wildfires in Europe: record burning in Spain and Portugal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Firefighters have been battling blazes <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cdd3my4e0pqo\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">right across Europe this summer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Climate change caused by humans made fire-prone conditions in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus about 10 times more likely, according to a rapid attribution study by World Weather Attribution group at Imperial College London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It was responsible for a 22% increase in the extreme weather conditions behind the fires, said WWA. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It is causing more extreme heat, which dries out vegetation, increasing flammability, said Theodore Keeping, wildfire scientist at the centre for Environmental Policy, Imperial College London.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The continued burning of fossil fuels will lead to more of these extreme fires, the researchers warned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was urgent 10 years ago to stop burning fossil fuels,&#8221; said Dr Fredi Otto, Professor in Climate Science at Imperial and leader of the WWA, describing it as &#8220;lethal for people and ecosystems&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Today, with 1.3C of warming [since pre-industrial times], we are seeing new extremes in wildfire behaviour that have pushed firefighters to their limit,&#8221; said Mr Keeping. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The scientists have begun a rapid analysis on the wildfires in Spain and Portugal and expect similar findings related to climate change. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Across Southern and Eastern Europe, rural depopulation is also contributing to the intense wildfires, Mr Keeping added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In regions like Spain and Portugal, a rising number of young people are relocating to cities in search of more profitable employment. Once-managed agricultural land is being abandoned and becoming overgrown, eliminating fire breaks and increasing the amount of flammable vegetation vulnerable to intense blazes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Firefighters have been battling blazes right across Europe this summer. Climate change caused by humans made fire-prone conditions&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":379476,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5312],"tags":[2000,299,104],"class_list":{"0":"post-379475","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379475","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=379475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379475\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/379476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}