Drought, Fire, Heat: the Silent Disaster of Biodiversity After a Record Summer
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Repetitive heats, out-of-standard fires, historic drought: France is hit by a record summer this year. Extreme conditions that hit the fauna and flora of the Hexagon with full force. Losses could be immense. - Drought, fires, heats: the silent hecatombe of biodiversity after a record summer (Environment).
The size of the burned areas this year far exceeds the average for many years in the European Union, and the problem is no longer limited to the Mediterranean region.
The burned area at the end of July was already more than double the usual, in a very dry summer marked by heat.
Forest fires are not letting Europe breathe. After weeks of extreme heat and drought, more than twenty people have died and hundreds of thousands more have had to be evacuated this summer due to the fires. Now the major actions are concentrated mainly in Belgium, Aragon and Portugal, and in Greece and Croatia there have been fatalities in recent days. The European Commission considers that the 2026 season is already “exceptionally serious”: at t…
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