Record Wildfires and Heat Sweep Across Greece, Threatening Historic Sites

The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, a part of the European Union’s Earth Observation Program, mentioned Wednesday that the wildfire exercise within the japanese Mediterranean area is at a ferocity by no means noticed earlier than. The company labeled the area a “wildfire hotspot.” In explicit, the fires in Turkey have made the day by day fireplace radiative energy, a technique of measuring biomass burned, attain “unprecedented values in the entire dataset,” which fits again to 2003.

“In Turkey and southern Italy, CAMS data shows the emissions and intensity of wildfires are rapidly increasing, and countries like Morocco, Albania, Greece, North Macedonia, and Lebanon are also affected,” the group mentioned in a information launch, whereas additionally warning of elevated air air pollution from the fires.