Nations struggle to control the upsurge of wildfires

When NASA had reported 2020 as the hottest year on the planet, courtesy all the raging and devastating wildfires worldwide, it had also predicted that 2021 will be worse. Their fear has finally come true as countries around the world are racing against time to tame the wildfires in their respective regions. Recently, while Greece experienced record heat waves with temperatures rising up to 45 degree celsius; Algeria experienced 19 wildfires killing around 90 people. In Russia’s Siberian regions, a record amount of carbon emissions has made lives difficult. Firefighters had a hard time trying to put out fires in Olympia, the birthplace of Olympic games. The good news is, they have managed to bring it under control for the time being. Wildfires also continue to torment the western part of USA, as California lost 489287 acres of fertile land. The Australian wildfires on the other hand have endangered the lives of the animals like kangaroos and marsupials. Scientists have pointed out that global warming is the foremost cause of the global wildfires. High temperatures not only aggravate forest fires but also results in drought, and breeding of invasive tree-killing insects that damage vegetation. Dry grounds have made forest areas more flammable, and have also enabled water-sucking plants draw enough groundwater leaving none for the mankind. With climate change going out of hand, the world is soon looking towards declaring a climate emergency.