European Children Could Face Almost Twice as Much Extreme Fire Weather: Study
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Research suggests children born in 2025 may experience years more dangerous wildfire conditions than previous generations, with the sharpest increases expected in the Mediterranean
The researchers, led by the Vrije Universiteit Brussels (VUB), studied the pyrometeorological conditions of heat, drought and wind…
Children born today in Europe will experience more years with extreme fire risk - Findings for the Mediterranean and Greece
Each additional degree of global warming by the end of the century adds approximately 473 days of extreme pyrometeorological conditions to the life of a child from Greece born in 2025.
A child born in Europe in 2025 is expected to experience more than three additional years of extreme weather conditions that favor fire outbreaks over their lifetime, compared to a child born in
These estimates concern the scenario according to which global warming will reach 2.6 degrees Celsius by 2100, as predicted based on current climate policies.
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