The Mediterranean Is a ‘Wildfire Hotspot’
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service, part of the European Union’s Earth Observation Program, said Wednesday that the wildfire activity in the eastern Mediterranean region is at a ferocity never observed before. The agency labeled the region a “wildfire hotspot.” In particular, the fires in Turkey have made the daily fire radiative power, a method of measuring biomass burned, reach “unprecedented values in the entire dataset,” which goes back to 2003.
“In Turkey and southern Italy, CAMS data shows the emissions and intensity of wildfires are rapidly increasing, and countries like Morocco, Albania, Greece, North Macedonia, and Lebanon are also affected,” the organization said in a news release, while also warning of increased air pollution from the fires.
