Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, making the region more vulnerable to wildfires.

Spain tackled several major wildfires on Tuesday in one of the country's most destructive fire seasons in recent decades, despite temperatures dropping across the Iberian Peninsula. Thousands of firefighters aided by soldiers and water-bombing aircraft fought fires tearing through parched woodland that were especially severe in northwestern Spain,

Southern Europe is experiencing one of its worst wildfire seasons in two decades, with Spain among the hardest-hit countries.