20% of Australian forests are said to have gone up in smoke. While the bulk of the fires have been brought under control and extinguished, France could in turn ignite. Finally, all the factors come together for. Subject to global warming, prey to increasingly recurrent and virulent periods of drought, but also to pests that transform its trees into matches ready to crack, according to many experts, the Hexagon meets all the criteria so that s '' trigger king-size braziers, called mega-fires. A threat that first hangs over the South, but which could affect almost all of France by the end of the century…
State of the French forests and defense, precautions to take at home when living in a risk zone ... To take stock of the situation, our Sixth Science podcast asked two audio firefighters: Rachel Mulot, head of the investigation service from the magazine Sciences et Avenir , and Fabrice Pouliquen, the 20 minutes environmental expert.
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