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Forest Fires, Floods and Drought Will Likely Hit Portugal on the Next 100 Years
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PORTUGAL: July 11, 2002


File photo from August 1998 of people looking at a forest fire in Vila de Rei in the centre of Portugal. Forest fires, floods and drought will likely hit Portugal in the next 100 years as it scorches under global warming, the head of a landmark environment study said on.




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Photo by JOSE MANUEL RIBEIRO


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