Hostens: wildfire spread to parts of FranceSpain and Portugal battered Europe on Thursday as heatwaves hit European Space Agency Urges immediate action to fight climate change.
More than 1,000 firefighters supported by water-bombing planes battled “monster” fires for the third day, which forced thousands from their homes and scorched thousands of hectares of forest in the southwestern Gironde region of France.
With a dangerous cocktail of sweltering temperatures, Tinder-box conditions and fanning the flames, the President Emmanuel Macron many said The European Union The nation was deploying reinforcements to help put the fire out.
“It’s a monster, a monster,” said Gregory Allion French firefighting body FNSPF said.
Heatwaves, floods and crumbling glaciers in recent weeks have raised concerns over climate change and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather around the world.
head of the European Space Agency, joseph ashbackerRising land temperatures and shrinking rivers, as measured from space, have left no doubt about the damage climate change will do to agriculture and other industries, the U.S. said.
ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite series has measured “extreme” land surface temperatures in recent weeks of more than 45C (113F) in the UK, 50C in France and over 60C in Spain.
“It’s too bad. We’ve seen extremes that haven’t been seen before,” Ashbacher told Reuters.
climate change risk
With relentless warming in Europe this summer, record temperatures and unprecedented droughts, there is a renewed focus on the risks of climate change to agriculture, industry and livelihoods.
Severe drought is set to reduce the EU’s maize crop by 15%, plunging it to a 15-year low, just as Europeans with higher food prices as a result of less-than-normal grain exports from Russia and Ukraine do struggle.
Swiss Army helicopters have been drafted to deliver water to thirsty cows, pigs and goats under the hot sun in the country’s alpine grasslands.
In France, suffering its harshest drought on record, trucks are delivering water to dozens of villages where taps have run dry, nuclear power stations have been exempted to pump hot discharge water into rivers, and farmers have warned that Lack of fodder can lead to shortage of milk.
In Germany, less rain this summer has lowered the water level of the Rhine, the country’s commercial artery, disrupting shipping and raising freight costs.
However, as Europe grapples with another heatwave, one group of workers has little choice but to sweat it out: gig-economy food couriers who often come amid the crackdown on labor rules.
After the mayor of Palermo on the island of Sicily in July ordered horses carrying tourists to be given at least 10 liters of water per day, bicycle courier Gaetano Russo filed a lawsuit demanding similar treatment.
“Am I worth less than any horse,” Rousseau was quoted as saying in a statement from the heartless CDIL union.
“Heart broken”
The UK Met Office on Thursday issued a four-day “extreme heat” warning for parts of England and Wales.
In Portugal, more than 1500 firefighters spent the sixth day fighting wildfires in the middle kovilha An area covering 10,500 hectares (40 sq mi), including parts of the Serra da Estrela National Park.
In Spain, lightning storms started new wildfires and hundreds of people were evacuated through a fire path in the province of Casares.
Macron’s office said additional firefighters were arriving from Greece and Sweden, while Germany, Austria, Romania and Poland were deploying firefighters to help deal with wildfires in France.
“European solidarity at work!” Macron tweeted.
Firefighters said they managed to save the village of Belin-Beliet, which turned into a ghost village after police told residents to get closer to the flames, but weather conditions would not help control the fire. .
More than 1,000 firefighters supported by water-bombing planes battled “monster” fires for the third day, which forced thousands from their homes and scorched thousands of hectares of forest in the southwestern Gironde region of France.
With a dangerous cocktail of sweltering temperatures, Tinder-box conditions and fanning the flames, the President Emmanuel Macron many said The European Union The nation was deploying reinforcements to help put the fire out.
“It’s a monster, a monster,” said Gregory Allion French firefighting body FNSPF said.
Heatwaves, floods and crumbling glaciers in recent weeks have raised concerns over climate change and the increasing frequency and intensity of extreme weather around the world.
head of the European Space Agency, joseph ashbackerRising land temperatures and shrinking rivers, as measured from space, have left no doubt about the damage climate change will do to agriculture and other industries, the U.S. said.
ESA’s Copernicus Sentinel-3 satellite series has measured “extreme” land surface temperatures in recent weeks of more than 45C (113F) in the UK, 50C in France and over 60C in Spain.
“It’s too bad. We’ve seen extremes that haven’t been seen before,” Ashbacher told Reuters.
climate change risk
With relentless warming in Europe this summer, record temperatures and unprecedented droughts, there is a renewed focus on the risks of climate change to agriculture, industry and livelihoods.
Severe drought is set to reduce the EU’s maize crop by 15%, plunging it to a 15-year low, just as Europeans with higher food prices as a result of less-than-normal grain exports from Russia and Ukraine do struggle.
Swiss Army helicopters have been drafted to deliver water to thirsty cows, pigs and goats under the hot sun in the country’s alpine grasslands.
In France, suffering its harshest drought on record, trucks are delivering water to dozens of villages where taps have run dry, nuclear power stations have been exempted to pump hot discharge water into rivers, and farmers have warned that Lack of fodder can lead to shortage of milk.
In Germany, less rain this summer has lowered the water level of the Rhine, the country’s commercial artery, disrupting shipping and raising freight costs.
However, as Europe grapples with another heatwave, one group of workers has little choice but to sweat it out: gig-economy food couriers who often come amid the crackdown on labor rules.
After the mayor of Palermo on the island of Sicily in July ordered horses carrying tourists to be given at least 10 liters of water per day, bicycle courier Gaetano Russo filed a lawsuit demanding similar treatment.
“Am I worth less than any horse,” Rousseau was quoted as saying in a statement from the heartless CDIL union.
“Heart broken”
The UK Met Office on Thursday issued a four-day “extreme heat” warning for parts of England and Wales.
In Portugal, more than 1500 firefighters spent the sixth day fighting wildfires in the middle kovilha An area covering 10,500 hectares (40 sq mi), including parts of the Serra da Estrela National Park.
In Spain, lightning storms started new wildfires and hundreds of people were evacuated through a fire path in the province of Casares.
Macron’s office said additional firefighters were arriving from Greece and Sweden, while Germany, Austria, Romania and Poland were deploying firefighters to help deal with wildfires in France.
“European solidarity at work!” Macron tweeted.
Firefighters said they managed to save the village of Belin-Beliet, which turned into a ghost village after police told residents to get closer to the flames, but weather conditions would not help control the fire. .