News Headline
Burning forests and burning coal: Turkey’s climate conundrum
Source
Al Jazeera
Publication Date
2021-08-20
The forest fires that raged across the Mediterranean for the past few weeks have brought levels of devastation to the Southern coast of Turkey not seen in decades. With almost 300 blazes and a total scorched area that is nine times the average of previous years, the blazes initially overwhelmed Turkish firefighters, and offers of support came flooding in from near and far.