Wildfires have burned 70,000 hectares in Italy so far this summer says WWF

(ANSA) - ROME, AUG 5 - Around 70,000 hectares have burned in Italy because of wildfires so far this summer, an area equivalent to roughly 100,000 soccer fields, the WWF said in a report on Wednesday. The environmental association said that was a 133% increase over the average of the past two decades. It said nearly one-third of the fires affected protected areas. The situation is even worse in other parts of Europe: 219,000 hectares have already burned in Spain and 91,000 in France, resulting...

By ANSA