Brussels, 20/08/2007 (Agence Europe) - With the forest fire season barely started, available figures on forest fires in the EU show that July 2007 was one of the worst-ever months on record. This was revealed in figures released at the beginning of August by the European Forest Fire Information System's the Joint Research Centre (JRC).
According to provisional figures released by the European Commission on 2 August, 3376 square kilometres of land has already been burned in 2007, compared to...