battling some of their largest blazes<\/a> since records began in recent weeks.<\/p>\nThe steep increase in the frequency of fire weather \u2013 characterised by searing temperatures, low humidity, dryness, and strong winds \u2013 \u201ccan only be attributed to global warming,\u201d said study co-author Raul Cordero.<\/p>\n
European countries are enduring an above-average season for wildfires, and have already overtaken 2025, which was a record-breaking year for destructive blazes.<\/p>\n
Cooling weather and rain helped to calm the worst of the fires in France and Spain on Thursday.<\/p>\n
France told 84,000 evacuees in the southwest of the country that it was now safe to go home, as France\u2019s largest wildfire since 1949 pulled back.<\/p>\n
Spain ended its state of national emergency as wildfires threatening areas near Madrid \u2013 the largest Spain has experienced since records began in 1961 \u2013 began to come under control.<\/p>\n
However, as high temperatures moved eastwards, fires were being fought in Greece, Turkiye, and the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n
In Greece, two firefighters died on the island of Crete on Wednesday, the fire department said, as several fires started around the country, fanned by gale-force winds. Another died in a separate fire in the Peloponnese region as the blazes continued into Thursday.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have difficult days ahead of us,\u201d Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said.<\/p>\n
Firefighters in Turkiye have been battling at least 115 fires across the country, although at least 110 were under control, according to the country\u2019s agriculture minister.<\/p>\n
An enormous wildfire has forced evacuations and prompted road closures in eastern England. The fire at Dunwich Heath, a significant biodiversity site, is one of the largest the region has seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Climate change has helped southern Europe\u2019s likelihood of wildfires double since 1981, say researchers. Published On 30 Jul…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":719728,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[7080,6445,1397,591,819,2043,632,50,90,640,1644,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-719727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate","tag-climate-crisis","tag-environment","tag-europe","tag-france","tag-greece","tag-middle-east","tag-news","tag-science","tag-spain","tag-turkey","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719727","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=719727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/719727\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/719728"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=719727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=719727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=719727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}