Climate scientists have warned that extreme wildfires are becoming more destructive in zones where they traditionally occur, such as Greece, Portugal, Spain and France, and will rise in areas such as Germany and Poland.
Scientists said fires were becoming of higher intensity and harder to control, after northern hemisphere blazes that included a forest fire in Greece that was the largest ever recorded in the EU, devastation on the Hawaiian island of Maui, and vast fires across Canada and north Africa.
In future, areas such as the Arctic and rainforests not previously affected could witness fires that were difficult to suppress, they said at a media briefing this week.