More than 60,000 residents fled their homes, including by boat, to escape two major blazes along the Atlantic coast.

Spain is in the path of totality for a solar eclipse next week—the mainland’s first since 1905. But will wildfire smoke and mass evacuations disrupt the highly anticipated experience?

By Janis Laizans and Emma Pinedo BORDEAUX/MADRID, July 27 (Reuters) - Firefighters sought on Monday to take advantage of more favourable weather conditions to subdue massive wildfires threatening the French city and tourist region of Bordeaux and a number of sites in neighbouring Spain.

Heat waves and scant rainfall in Europe have contributed to historic wildfires in France and Spain that have forced hundreds of thousands of people to flee their homes in one of the continent’s biggest evacuation efforts since World War II.

Countries such as Spain and France can expect fire regimes more like those of California as climate change favours hot, dry conditions, scientists suggest.

ATHENS, Aug 1 (Reuters) - Wildfires fanned by heavy winds burned across multiple areas of Greece on Saturday, including near Athens, with large-scale firefighting operations and emergency evacuations underway,

France has deployed emergency teams to protect Bordeaux after flames spread inland from the Cap Ferret peninsula, while Spain is preparing to declare a civil protection emergency and release recovery funds for fire-hit regions.

Climate change’s fingerprints are all over the extreme fire weather that sparked this week’s devastating wildfires in Spain and France and has spiked Southern Europe’s burning the past eight years, two new studies conclude.