00:00Spain and Portugal are burning like never before, and the smoke has reached as far as the UK.
00:05But this is just the beginning.
00:07In the worst wildfire season the EU has ever recorded, over one million hectares have gone up in flames.
00:13Most of the destruction is in Spain and Portugal, where 1% of the Iberian Peninsula has burned.
00:19That's an area four times the size of Greater London, and it mostly happened in just two weeks.
00:24Protected parks, pilgrimage routes, and even UNESCO sites were hit.
00:27Air quality plummeted.
00:29And satellite data revealed record-breaking CO2 emissions, more than Croatia's total emissions in 2023.
00:37The fires are made worse by climate change, and in turn, they fuel it.
00:41It's a vicious cycle.
00:42Hotter temperatures dry out land, abandoned farmland adds fuel, and once-resilient ecosystems are now on the edge.
00:49Experts say we're entering a new era of unstoppable megafires, unless drastic climate action is taken now.
00:55From human choices to scorched earth, the warning signs are burning right in front of us.
01:01The question is, will we act before everything turns to ash?
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