Shafaqna English- Wildfires displace 200,000 people in France and around 70,000 in Spain. It has been an exceptionally hot summer so far in western Europe with successive heatwaves. June was the hottest June recorded for western Europe, according to data from the EU’s climate change service, Copernicus. Additionally, an unusually wet winter allowed vegetation to grow widely and rapidly, which, when dried by the summer heat, has meant abundant fuel for the fires. Climate change is also increasing the risk of summer heatwaves across Europe – which is the fastest-warming continent on earth, with temperatures rising more than 0.5C each decade since the 1990s.