Climate Change: Burned Areas in Europe Will Increase, Researchers Warn
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“Our results indicate that there could be widespread increases in burned areas even with a relatively low global warming of around 1.8°C,” says Maik Billing, a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) and lead author of the study. This study is published as Europe is experiencing devastating fires this summer, fueled by heat and drought, in Belgium, Spain, France, and Greece. The researchers calculate that approxima…
On the Old Continent, the calcinate area is expected to increase with the warming of the climate, according to a study published on Thursday, August 20th. But this increase will depend on the level of the increase in temperatures and can in part be compensated by better means of control.
New study warns that even in the best climate scenario, with the smallest possible temperature increase, fires will intensify - Better management can limit the destruction
NEW research predicts a 39% increase in burned areas in Europe by the end of the century, even in the best climate scenario.
By the end of the century, the fires of vegetation will contain 39% more of Europe's surface even in the best scenario of limiting the warming of the planet, found a study, if not taken...
A study by the Potsdam Research Institute on the effects of climate change (PIK) published this Thursday, August 20th warns about the increase of fires in Europe in the years to come. Even in their optimistic scenario, the researchers stress the need to improve the means of combating a phenomenon that has already ravaged the continent since the beginning of summer.
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