Wildfires rage in Greece and Italy as EU mounts firefighting operation
The Guardian says the devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was being assessed as the EU mounted one of its largest firefighting operations ever and smoke from forest fires in Siberia reached the north pole.
As UN experts on Monday said global warming was advancing faster than feared and that humanity was “unequivocally” to blame, firefighters and local residents battled massive blazes on the island of Evia, east of Athens, for a seventh straight day.
The Greek prime minister, Kyriakos Mitsotakis, apologised for failings in tackling the blazes in a televised address to the nation. He said burnt areas would be reforested with more fire-resistant trees and compensation would be paid from a €500m emergency relief fund.
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