Fires have devastated large parts of the world over the past decade. Last year, Europe, the Middle East and Africa suffered some of the worst forest fires since 2000, according to the Forest Fires 2023 report, published by the Commission's Joint Research Centre, a press release from the EU Executive informs. According to the report, forest fires affected more than 500,000 hectares of natural land, about half the size of the island of Cyprus. In recent years, catastrophic forest fires have been