Sattelite images show wildfire devastation in Balkans and Greece
Satellite images showed the devastation left behind after wildfires ripped through Europe this summer, with successive heatwaves fueled by climate change intensifying drought and leaving vegetation tinder-dry.
From France and Spain to Greece, fires have killed more than 20 people, forced hundreds of thousands to flee their homes, and burned 576,000 hectares (2,225 square miles) across Europe this year, data from the European Forest Fire Information System shows, an area twice the size of Luxembourg.
In Greece, an elderly couple died at the weekend as fires swept ​through the island of Salamina, where 500 people were evacuated by ferry after wind pushed the flames into residential areas.
Extreme fire risk has become a regular part of European summers in recent years, as hotter, drier weather caused by climate change has combined with other factors including rural abandonment, which has left land untended and allowed flammable, dry vegetation to build up in forests to fuel fast-spreading fires.
(Source: Reuters)
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