Canada is going through its second-worst burn on record and the blazes are occurring not in the west, but in the bone-dry prairie provinces and the Atlantic region. Tens of thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes due to the wildfires. Saskatchewan and Manitoba have been the worst hit, covering more than 60% of the area burned in Canada. The fires have seized strained resources in Atlantic Canada, where officials in Newfoundland and Labrador are struggling to battle out-of-control blazes. Firefighters in Spain, Portugal, Greece, and Turkiye continue to battle wildfires that have raged on for weeks. Hot and dry conditions are expected to persist, challenging efforts to contain the blazes. Bulgaria, Montenegro, and Albania have requested help from the EU's firefighting force to deal with forest fires. The force has already been activated as many times this year as the entirety of last year's fire season. In April 2025, Israel suffered its largest wildfire ever.

Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average since the 1980s, according to the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The EU monitoring agency says that 2024 was the hottest year on record both globally and in Europe, which experienced its second-highest number of "heat stress" days. Sea temperatures are also rising globally, particularly in the Mediterranean Sea, debilitating marine life and impacting livelihoods. Moreover, warmer ocean waters increase the potency of hurricanes, cyclones, and typhoons. Links: Canada Ablaze; European Inferno.