Fires ravage France, Spain, Portugal forests as Europe’s temperatures rise again

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Fires have ravaged forests in France, Spain, and Portugal amid rising temperatures across Europe, with over 17,000 hectares destroyed. The heatwave has contributed to extreme weather conditions and increased mortality rates in affected regions.

Hundreds of firefighters battled forest infernos in France, Spain and Portugal on Sunday as temperatures rose again in heatwave-scarred Europe. The latest wildfires have already devastated more than 17,000 hectares (42,000 acres) of land – twice the size of Manhattan – across the three countries where temperatures in some places were predicted to touch 40°C on Sunday. Authorities registered thousands of excess deaths during one of Europe’s worst heatwaves in June, and with more extreme weather...