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Wildfires continue to rage, destroying vast green areas of forests and woodlands on five continents, from Siberia in the east to Bolivia and the US state of California in the west, through Algeria and Tunisia in North Africa and Greece in Europe.
Those fires resulted in dozens of deaths and the burning of thousands of hectares and acres of bushes and forests, in addition to heavy material losses in property, infrastructure and institutions that have not been counted so far.
Greece on the northern bank of the Mediterranean witnessed last week alone more than 500 fires caused by a heat wave that it has not witnessed in three decades, destroying hundreds of acres of green areas, forcing the authorities to evacuate dozens of villages and tens of thousands of people from their homes and villages.
Siberia, for its part, and in a precedent of its kind, witnessed a wave of raging fires, the smoke of which reached the North Pole, according to what the US space agency “NASA” reported today, traversing more than 3,000 km, and its smoke covered most of Russia, according to satellite images.
In North America, the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection announced that the “Dixie” fire, which has been burning northeast of San Francisco for nearly 26 days, has devastated nearly 500,000 acres.
Press releases indicated that more than 5,000 firefighters are participating in extinguishing the South American fires, which this year erupted on about 150,000 hectares in the Saint Cruz province of Bolivia, near the border with Brazil, according to local authorities.
The issue of climate change and its destructive impact on the earth seems to be still awaiting radical solutions, with the devastating catastrophic cases witnessed by the fires that damage the earth from east to west, and if it is difficult to link a fire with climate change, the latter makes these disasters more likely and dangerous, which was confirmed by scientists The environment argues that the current fires are indeed the result of rising global temperatures.