Wildfires rage in Greece and Italy as EU mounts firefighting operation

Week of blazes forces evacuations and brings devastating scale of destruction to large areas of southern EuropeThe devastating scale of destruction from a week of wildfires in Greece and Italy was being assessed as the EU mounted one of its largest firefighting operations ever and smoke from forest fires in Siberia reached the north pole.As UN experts on Monday said global warming was advancing faster than feared and that humanity was "unequivocally" to blame, firefighters and local residents battled massive blazes on the island of Evia, east of Athens, for a seventh straight day. Continue reading...