Europe could see even more damaging forest fires in the future, the EU's agriculture and environment ministers were warned over the weekend.
The warning came after a summer where Spain and Portugal were both ravaged by devastating fires, causing huge damage to thousands of hectares of land.
Climate change and land abandonment were named as the key reasons for the worrying trends.
The EU environment agency presented its recent report to the ministers, stating that the union's...
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