![]() ![]() ![]() Indeed, “while global warming explains why forest fires are more becoming more frequent and intense, such fires can in turn accelerate the rise in temperatures”, said Thomas Smith, an assistant professor at the London School of Economics (LSE) who has researched the impact of forest fires on climate. ![]() While the authorities’ first priority is to evacuate people and protect residential areas, experts are already assessing the ecological and economic cost of the devastating fires, which are set to profoundly impact biodiversity, soil quality and, potentially, weather patterns too. ![]() The other has raged further inland, around the town of Landiras, torching some 12,000 hectares.īetween them, the two blazes have already consumed “more than half the surface area burned by fires, on average, each year across the country", said Dominique Morvan, an expert in wildfires at the University of Aix-Marseille. One has consumed more than 6,500 hectares of vegetation near the Arcachon maritime basin famed for its oysters and beaches. The continent’s largest man-made woodland, the nearby Landes forest is caught in between two wildfires of exceptional intensity. More than 34,000 people have been forced from their homes and summer vacation spots in the Gironde region, with the flames moving to within a few kilometres of the famed Dune de Pilat, Europe's highest sand dune and a tourism hotspot. French authorities have deployed much of the country’s fire-fighting capacity to curb fierce blazes that have raged since July 12, fuelled by swirling winds and a scorching heatwave. ![]()
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