Published: May 12, 2026 22:19
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On the outskirts of Miami, an unstoppable wall of fire engulfs the Everglades, forcing residents to be ready to evacuate. This extraordinary blaze marks the beginning of a dark year for the planet.
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A few kilometers from the houses, a wall of fire. An unprecedented fire threatening the suburbs of Miami. They ravage the Everglades, the marshes of Florida. Residents have been instructed to be ready to evacuate. In the meantime, they are protecting their properties as best they can. “We are very worried, we went out in the middle of the night just to make sure the fire wasn’t coming towards us”; “We could hear it crackling, that’s how serious it was. Everyone evacuated before the firefighters arrived,” several residents declare.
The Everglades, normally, look like this. Water and low grass. Yet it is here where the fire started. It all starts from a disrupted climatic cycle, visible on all continents. First, intense rainy periods that allow vegetation to grow very fast, before sudden droughts turn it into fuel. Consequence for the entire planet: devastating fires. Never before had the world recorded so much burned area between January and May. 50% more than the average of recent years.
Figures that could become the norm. “In about fifty years, in more northern latitudes, we could have, in Europe at least, a doubling of fire risk days. So what needs to be done is to succeed in adapting,” says Jean-Baptiste Filippi.
2026 could well be the hottest year ever recorded. Scientists fear the multiplication of fires, encouraged by the return of the El Niño phenomenon, the warming of the Pacific Ocean that raises global temperatures.
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