Fires in Turkey, over 50,000 people evacuated - Climate change causes heat waves across Europe
Over 50,000 people have been evacuated in Turkey as massive wildfires break out. According to scientists, heat waves are spreading increasingly across Europe, with temperatures exceeding 40 °C and endangering human health.
Forest fires have swept through Turkey and France, while more than 50,000 people have been evacuated due to a heat wave that has hit Europe. Health alerts have spread to France, Spain, Italy, Portugal and Germany. Even the Netherlands, accustomed to a milder climate, has warned of high temperatures in the coming days, combined with high humidity.
“Large parts of Western Europe are experiencing extreme heat and heatwave conditions that typically occur in July or August, not June,” say researchers from the Copernicus Climate Change Service. They say temperatures in some places are 5–10 degrees Celsius higher than they should be at this time of year.
In Turkey, fires continued for a second day in the western province of Izmir, fanned by strong winds. More than 50,000 people have been evacuated from five regions, including over 42,000 in Izmir, according to the Turkish emergency management authority.
Turkey's coastal regions have faced increasing fire frequency in recent years due to hotter, drier conditions that scientists say are a result of human-caused climate change.
In France, where temperatures are expected to peak on Tuesday and Wednesday, fires have broken out in the southwestern department of Aude, where temperatures exceeded 40°C. The flames burned 400 hectares and forced the evacuation of a campsite and a monastery, authorities said.
French weather service Meteo France put a record 84 of the country's 101 departments on alert for the heat wave that will last until mid-week.
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