Due to climate change, wildfires are becoming more frequent and more destructive. In 2025 alone, a record 1 million hectares of land across the EU burned...
The European Commission has finalized the disbursement of €108 million from the EU Solidarity Fund (EUSF) to support Poland and Austria in their recovery efforts following devastating floods...
While 2024 was a more moderate wildfire year for the EU, it was still above the 17-year average. New data, included in the JRC report on...
Wildfires burn area larger than Belgium, sending an equivalent of Germany’s annual emissions into the atmosphere. The Amazon rainforest in 2024 suffered its most devastating forest...
Following Portugal's activation of the EU Civil Protection Mechanism in response to severe wildfires in the northern part of the country, the European Commission has mobilised...
The Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) routinely tracks key indicators of the composition of the atmosphere all around the globe, including surface air quality in Europe,...
To tackle the biggest wildfires ever recorded in the EU, the Commission's Emergency Response Coordination Centre has mobilised 11 firefighting planes and 1 helicopter from the...
