Wildfires rage as another heatwave bakes western Europe

Trees burn during a forest fire near Belin-Beliet in Gironde, southwestern France, on August 10th, 2022. Photograph: PHILIPPE LOPEZ/AFP via Getty ImagesWildfires tore through parts of France, Spain and Portugal on Thursday as heatwaves baked Europe and the head of the European Space Agency urged immediate action to fight climate change.

European Space Agency head Josef Aschbacher said rising land temperatures and shrinking rivers as measured from space left no doubt about the toll on agriculture and other industries from climate change. Severe drought is set to slash the European Union’s maize harvest by 15 per cent, dropping it to a 15-year a low, just as Europeans contend with higher food prices as a result of lower-than-normal grain exports from Russia and Ukraine.

Tthe ruins of a house destroyed by the fire that erupted in Belin-Beliet, near Hostens, southwestern France, pictured on Thursday. Photograph: Guillaume Souvant/AFP via Getty Images After the mayor of Palermo on the island of Sicily in July ordered horses carrying tourists be given at least 10 litres of water per day, bicycle courier Gaetano Russo filed a suit demanding similar treatment. “Am I worth less than a horse?,” Russo was quoted as saying in a Nidil CDIL union statement.

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