• Wildfires rage: More than 200,000 people have been evacuated from their homes in France and Spain as wildfires, fueled by climate change driven heatwaves, continue to tear through southwest Europe.
• Evacuations: In France’s Cap Ferret peninsula alone, 40,000 people have been evacuated, while in Spain, thick plumes of smoke have darkened the sky as the government declared a national emergency
• Climate crisis: Europe deals with wildfires every summer. But this year the continent has seen far more land burnt than the annual average for the same period, according to data from the European Forest Fire Information System (EFFIS).