The destructive power of wildfire has been a defining feature of a summer of climate extremes.
Dozens of people on multiple continents have died. Blazes have reduced homes and businesses to rubble. Thick smoke has darkened skies and carried fine-particle pollution thousands of miles from its source.
Firefighters in Greece have confronted more than 350 fires over five days. Gale-force winds have made the task more challenging, and the hot and dry summer conditions have been some of the worst since meteorological records have been kept, authorities said. Across Europe, many areas have experienced a brutally hot summer as global heat records sweltered to all-time record highs in July.
Eventually the wreckage became clear: historic Lahaina had become the site of the deadliest U.S. wildfire in over 100 years. But he added that a Native Hawaiian leader he’d spoken to had called the tree a “diamond in the rough of hope.”Like much of mainland Spain, the popular tourist destination Tenerife has been in drought for the past several years due to climate change’s impacts on regional weather patterns. Those changes created the perfect kindling for what police said was an arson wildfire that raged out of control over several days.
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