As the world awaits radicial solutions to climate change, the Earth is witnessing catastrophic fires that have destroyed territory all over the world. 

Forest fires are currently raging on five continents: Asia, Europe, Africa, North America and South America.

The fires caused the deaths of a number of residents in several countries, and have so far burned thousands of hectares of bushes and forests.

-Greece-

Weeks after they began, fires are still burning relentlessly in many parts of Greece, with the largest fire front forming in Evia, Greece's second largest island, off the mainland to the east of Athens.

The fires in Greece last week came during the country's worst heat wave in more than three decades.

"The climate crisis is knocking on the door of the entire planet," Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said, just hours after the release of a UN report on climate change.

-Siberia-

Until Monday, the Siberian forest fires were raging so fiercely, according to the authorities, that smoke reached the North Pole, according to NASA. 

Russian scientists believe that the current fires are already the result of global warming, according to AFP.

More than 3.4 million hectares of forests are currently burning in Siberia, including "remote and hard-to-reach" areas, adding that "dense smoke is spreading over large areas," according to AFP.

-California-

The second largest wildfire in the history of the US state of California spread to nearly 500,000 acres on Sunday, injuring three firefighters.

The California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection said, on its Twitter account, that the "Dixie" fire burning northeast of San Francisco expanded to 489,287 acres from about 274,000 acres in the middle of last week, according to Reuters.

The department said that the fire has been active for 26 days, and that it has been 21 percent contained, and more than 5,000 firefighters are participating in the efforts to extinguish the Dixie Fire.

This is the second largest wildfire in the state after a massive fire that broke out in August 2020 and burned more than one million acres.

-Bolivia-

In South America, this year, forest fires burned about 150,000 hectares in the Saint Cruz province of Bolivia, near the border with Brazil, according to local authorities on Saturday.

Local officials reported that the height of the fire was more than five meters, while the height of the smoke columns exceeded 40 meters, noting that the San Matias region is the most affected by the fires that threaten a nature reserve.