Wildfires destroy over 700,000 hectares of forest in Europe 

High temperatures have caused several wildfires in Europe this year, destroying a record of more than 700,000 hectares of forest across the continent so far, say the experts of the Copernicus satellite monitoring program, Report informs.

The summer of 2022 was the hottest in Europe's recorded history.

Temperatures from June through to August 2022 were 1.34C hotter than the historical 1991-2020 average, while August itself was 1.72C higher than average.