The prime minister announced on Monday €12m worth of aid to French regions that had been worst affected by the fires.

Europe's heat wave exposes buried history and new threats — Nazi-era wrecks emerge from the Danube, nuclear reactors face cooling risks, and Greece battles deadly wildfires.

CNN is monitoring Europe’s largest active wildfires. During the past 20 years, Europe has seen an increase in the area of land burned annually.

Insurers warn that Europe is facing a "protection gap" in wildfire cover as disaster recovery costs outpace insurance coverage.

BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) — Thick gray smoke drifted over a wooded area in northeast Serbia on Friday as authorities raced to contain a major wildfire, while multiple other blazes raged across the country amid extreme heat and prolonged drought gripping the Balkans.

The vast blazes ripping through southwestern France burned so intensely they created a powerful, fire-generated thunderstorm. This rare phenomenon is sometimes seen in the kinds of megafires that afflict the US and Canada,

Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and the continent’s wildfires are now big enough, hot enough and last long enough to reach them

Europe is full of buried explosives left over from 20th century wars, and wildfires are now reaching them more regularly.

The wildfires afflicting communities across the world can now be tracked more easily by anyone using Europe’s free and open satellite imagery service—all thanks to a wildfire visualization script originating from nearly a decade ago.

Europe has been swept by weeks of devastating wildfires fuelled by dry conditions and a historically hot summer, with France, Greece, Portugal and Spain also battling major fires. #EuropeNews