Mediterranean Wildfires in the Age of Climate Change
Although Mediterranean littoral areas naturally experience seasonal wildfires, the steady progression of global climate change is leading to ever hotter average temperatures and drier conditions in the region, which have resulted in increasingly intense and unprecedentedly devastating blazes. According to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s findings, wildfire risk across the Mediterranean region will rise in parallel with the overall degradation of the health of the local ecosystem...
George Zittis Eduard Plana Blach Eduard Plana Bach Cyprus Institute Atmosphere Research Center Intergovernmental Panel On Climate
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