Wildfires in Europe

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Due to climate change, large or even extreme wildfires are becoming an increasingly serious threat in many regions of Europe. Forest and rural fires used to be mostly limited to Southern Europe, but global warming makes them more and more likely to happen in other regions as well. How prepared are the different regions and countries in dealing with wildfires? What practices increase or reduce fire risk? How can communities and the environment recover from a large wildfire?
EDJNet is exploring these and other angles of the phenomenon, relying both on data-driven analyses and on other journalistic approaches, including reporting from the field.

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