FOREST FIRES ANALYSIS
August 1st, 2005
BY MARK ROWEIT'S summer, so in southern Europe there are, once again, forest fires. Villagers and firefighters in Spain and Portugal have been battling wildfires in recent days that have destroyed thousands of hectares of forest and scrubland, while French firefighters have also fought blazes in Provence, the Var department in the Côte d'Azur, and Greoux-les-Bains, near the French Alps.Recent years have witnessed an increase in forest fires in the Mediterranean region of the European Union. According to new European Union (EU) figures, in 2003, the total area ...
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