Over the past few years, wildfires in several parts of the world have dominated the news.
The first six and a half months of this year saw almost 346,000 hectares of grassland, scrub and forest consumed by fire in Europe, three times the average between 2006 and last year, which was the worst ever for summer wildfires along Turkey’s Mediterranean coast.
The California wildfire seasons in 2020 and last year burned the highest and second-highest numbers of acres of land since recordkeeping began. So far this year, authorities in the US state have battled almost 4,700 wildfires.
Given this alarming trend,