Climate change made deadly wildfires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus more fierce, study finds

A new study indicates that climate change that has resulted in scorching temperatures and the decrease in precipitation made massive forest fires in Turkey, Greece and Cyprus this summer, burning much more fiercely. The study Thursday of the world meteorological allocation said that forest fires that had killed 20 people, forced 80,000 to evacuate and burned more than a million hectares were 22% more intense in 2025. It was the worst year of European fire fire. Global meteorological allocation is a group of researchers who report if and to what extent extreme weather events are affected by climate change. A researcher said that work had found an extremely strong climate change component in the warmer and drier conditions that contribute to intense forest fires.