简介:Every year again, stories about wildfires in Spain and other southern European countries make newspaper headlines. In the summer of 2012 for example, much of Spain's countryside was left tinder-dry by a prolonged hea简介:Every year again, stories about wildfires in Spain and other southern European countries make newspaper headlines. In the summer of 2012 for example, much of Spain's countryside was left tinder-dry by a prolonged heat wave, resulting in major wildfires in
northern Catalonia - near the Pyrenees - and on La Gomera, in the Canary Islands. Be it because of human negligence or malicious intent, forest wildfires result in a major cost forsociety, the loss of valuable forest areas, and the risk of human casualties.详细>