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Jul 18, 2022

Calls for action and investment as wildfires rage in Western Europe

From the BBC World Service: Amidst the second heatwave in a month, tens of thousands of people have been evacuated in Spain, France and Portugal. The U.K. is set to become home to the world’s largest automated drone superhighway. Protesters have been on the streets of Budapest for nearly a week demonstrating against proposed changes to Hungary’s tax system.

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Firefighters operate at the site of a wildfire in Pumarejo de Tera near Zamora, northern Spain, on June 18, 2022. - Firefighters continued to fight against multiple fires in Spain, one of which ravaged nearly 20,000 hectares of land, on the last day of an extreme heat wave which crushed the country, with peaks at 43 degrees. The largest of these forest fires was still out of control this afternoon in the Sierra de la Culebra, a mountain range in the region of Castile and Leon (northwest), near the border with Portugal. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP) (Photo by CESAR MANSO/AFP via Getty Images)
Firefighters operate at the site of a wildfire in Pumarejo de Tera near Zamora, northern Spain, on June 18, 2022. - Firefighters continued to fight against multiple fires in Spain, one of which ravaged nearly 20,000 hectares of land, on the last day of an extreme heat wave which crushed the country, with peaks at 43 degrees. The largest of these forest fires was still out of control this afternoon in the Sierra de la Culebra, a mountain range in the region of Castile and Leon (northwest), near the border with Portugal. (Photo by CESAR MANSO / AFP) (Photo by CESAR MANSO/AFP via Getty Images)

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Calls for action and investment as wildfires rage in Western Europe