In Spain, 200,000 hectares of forest have already burned in 2022
2022 is already the most devastating year for forest fires in Spain since records began.
In the first seven months of the current year, the flames destroyed more than 197,000 hectares of forest, the state TV channel RTVE reported, citing the European Earth observation system Copernicus.
This is already more than in the previous record year 2012, when the forest fires in Spain destroyed 189376 hectares. By comparison, the almost 200,000 hectares (2000 square kilometers) that have been destroyed so far in 2022 correspond to 80 percent of the area of Saarland.
Source: Der Tagesspiegel
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