Europe’s fiery summer: a climate ‘reality check’?
Wildfires and storms. Rivers at record lows. Parched crops withering in the fields. For many Europeans, this year's scorching summer means climate change is increasingly hard to ignore.
Driest July in memory imperils Europe’s crops
As much of Europe bakes in a third heatwave since June, fears are growing that extreme drought driven by climate change in the continent's breadbasket nations will dent stable crop yields and deepen the cost-of-living crisis.
Climate change drives Europe towards record fire year
The fires that have torched through Europe are on course to make 2022 a record year for forest loss on the continent, as scientists warn climate change is already contributing to ever fiercer blazes.
Mediterranean faces fiercer heatwaves, drought, fires: UN draft report
The Mediterranean is a "climate change hotspot" and will be hit by ever fiercer heatwaves, drought and fires supercharged by rising temperatures, according to a draft UN assessment
Greek heatwave: Seven deadly European summers
With Greece roasted by the worst heatwave in more than three decades and forest fires raging in neighbouring Turkey, we look at how Europe is being struck more often by extreme heat
EU mobilises firefighting aid to Greece, Sweden and Latvia
The EU steps up efforts to mobilise and coordinate the dispatch of firefighters and equipment from its member countries to fight wildfires raging in Greece, Sweden and Latvia.