Record European fires burn over 500,000 hectares during summer
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Record European fires burn over 500,000 hectares during summer
A record-breaking summer that saw more than 1,000 wildfires has torched some 540,000 hectares (1.3 million acres) of land across the European Union since mid-June, according to official data—an area more than twice the size of Luxembourg.
Since mid-June, around 540,000 hectares have burned across the European Union after more than 1,000 fires – a record season as summer draws to a close, according to satellite data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS). “More than 80% of the approximately 647,000 hectares that have burned in the EU since the beginning of the year were burned......
Since mid-June, around 5.4 million hectares have burned in the EU after more than 1,000 fires, according to satellite data from the European Effis system. The summer's forest burns are equivalent to an area about nine times the size of Madrid, or 5,400 square kilometers. More than 80% of the around 6.4 million hectares burned […]
More than 5.4 million hectares have been reduced to ashes in the EU since mid-June, marking a devastating fire season. The toll of this year's forest fires in the European Union is extremely heavy, as according to satellite data from the European Effis system, more than 5,400,000 hectares have burned since mid-June after more than a thousand […] The article European Union: More than 5.4 million hectares of ash since mid-June due to fires appeare…
The European Union was in flames, a series of records unseen since the beginning of measurements were broken - The scale of the destruction is incomprehensible.
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