{"id":1424935,"date":"2026-08-05T19:56:25","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/europe-on-fire-italy-spain-and-france-engulfed-by-forest-fires\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:56:25","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:56:25","slug":"europe-on-fire-italy-spain-and-france-engulfed-by-forest-fires","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/europe-on-fire-italy-spain-and-france-engulfed-by-forest-fires\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe on fire: Italy, Spain and France engulfed by forest fires"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"PDq2pG_selectionAnchorContainer\" data-start=\"542\" data-end=\"741\"><strong>This summer, wildfires in Italy have destroyed about 70,000 hectares of land. That&#8217;s roughly the size of 100,000 football fields and more than double the average over the past 20 years.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"743\" data-end=\"831\"> This <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ansa.it\/english\/news\/2026\/08\/05\/wildfires-have-burned-70000-hectares-in-italy-this-summer-says-wwf_1f15f664-0be7-46ca-b676-8fdeb631ce4d.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">is reported by<\/a> ANSA, citing a report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"833\" data-end=\"1009\"> According to WWF, the area burned this year is 133% larger than the average for the past two decades. Almost a third of all fires occurred in protected areas.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1011\" data-end=\"1302\"> The fund noted that the situation is even more difficult in other European countries. In Spain, more than 219,000 hectares have already burned, and in France &#8211; more than 91,000 hectares. Dozens of people have died due to large-scale fires, and more than 300,000 residents have been forced to temporarily leave their homes.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1304\" data-end=\"1525\"> WWF emphasized that instead of weakening climate policy, EU countries should strengthen measures to reduce emissions, restore natural ecosystems, and protect the environment to prevent similar disasters in the future.<\/p>\n<div class=\"full-post__content font-rules\">\n<p> Also follow <strong>\u201cPryamim\u201d<\/strong> on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Facebook<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/prm_ua\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">X<\/a> , <a href=\"https:\/\/t.me\/+rtV4dxYu2_cyNjVi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Telegram<\/a> , and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/pryamiy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Instagram.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This summer, wildfires in Italy have destroyed about 70,000 hectares of land. That&#8217;s roughly the size of 100,000 football fields and more than double the average over the past 20 years. This is reported by ANSA, citing a report by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). According to WWF, the area burned this year is 133% [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":1424930,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76870,76871,76872],"class_list":["post-1424935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-news-2","category-news-feed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1424930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}