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What tools does the EU have to fight wildfires? Are they enough?

Europe’s wildfire crisis is testing the limits of the EU’s emergency response system, exposing a gap between growing firefighting capacity and slower efforts to make landscapes less flammable.

Euronews

A heat wave threatens to reignite France’s mega-fire near Bordeaux

Fire crews in southwest France are battling a massive blaze four times the size of Paris

The Independent UK

Wildfires: Europe on track for worst year on record as burned area reaches size of Luxembourg

While Madrid braces for "difficult hours ahead", Portugal puts municipalities on maximum wildfire alert. Which countries have suffered the worst damage so far?

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It may feel like the world is on fire this summer. But that’s not the case everywhere

More than three-quarters of the global emissions from the burning of plant material comes from Africa and Asia

The Independent UK

France widens mass evacuation as wildfire flares near Atlantic resorts

French authorities ordered more evacuations along the Atlantic coast as heat threatened firefighters. Thousands of residents and tourists were displaced by the massive wildfire west of Bordeaux. Spain also braced for a fourth heat wave with several large fires still burning. Firefighters made progress in some areas, allowing some evacuees…

The Economic Times

Europe’s employers face a new challenge—keeping workers safe during heatwaves

As temperatures hit record peaks across the continent, European companies are shifting working hours and issuing cooling kits to keep workers safe and preserve productivity.

Fortune

Western Europe recorded hottest June as heatwaves surge, EU's climate monitor says

Global temperatures in June were 1.39C above the estimated pre-industrial average, a period covering 1850-1900, according to Copernicus.

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Western Europe logs hottest June on record as climate change fuels harsher heatwaves

Western Europe recorded its hottest June ever as a severe heatwave gripped the continent. This extreme weather event followed an early spring hot spell and another record heatwave. Global temperatures also reached high levels, with oceans experiencing their warmest June. Thousands of deaths were linked to the punishing heatwave across…

The Economic Times

Western Europe records hottest ever June as climate change drives heatwaves

Western Europe experienced its warmest June on record, as a heatwave at the end of the month in many countries broke temperature records. The confirmation from the European Union’s climate monitor comes as many countries are facing a third heatwave this week since May.

Radio France Internationale

Western Europe records hottest-ever June

PARIS - Western Europe this year experienced its hottest June on record as a searing heatwave swept across a continent facing increasingly frequent and intense heat extremes, the EU’s climate monitor said Thursday.

Bangkok Post

Western Europe records hottest-ever June as heatwaves intensify

Temperatures across ravaged region 3C above average as scientists warn of risks for people, ecosystems and infrastructure

The Guardian - UK

Western Europe records its hottest June after searing heatwave

EU's climate monitor said Thursday that Western Europe this year experienced its hottest month of June on record as an intense heatwave swept across the world's fastest-warming continent. A "heat dome" weather effect – a high-pressure system acting like a lid on a boiling pot – led to all-time and…

France 24

Western Europe records its hottest June as heatwaves surge

Western Europe this year experienced its hottest June on record as a searing heatwave swept across a continent facing increasingly frequent and intense heat extremes, the EU's climate monitor said Thursday. - 'Heat dome' - Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent, and changes in atmospheric circulation are fuelling more frequent…

The Economic Times

Record-high ocean heat could fuel sea level rise and extreme weather on land

New Copernicus data reveals that daily global sea surface temperatures have broken records for the time of year.

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The Guardian - UK

Ocean surface temperatures hit a record high for June

European scientists warn of consequences for weather patterns, the global climate and marine life

Radio France Internationale

European heatwave drives world's second-hottest May on record

The world experienced its second-hottest May on record in 2026 as an unusually early and intense heatwave swept across Europe, setting new temperature records across the continent, the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service said on Wednesday.

Euronews

EU monitor warns of 'new normal' following record temperatures in May

Records were broken in Britain, France, Ireland and Portugal last month as a "heat dome" of warm air from northern Africa pushed temperatures well above normal levels across western Europe.

Radio France Internationale

How Europe’s rapid warming has fuelled a record May heatwave

Europe is bracing for more extreme heat after record May temperatures swept across Britain, Ireland and France this week – with scientists saying a “heat dome” over western Europe is combining with human-driven climate change, shifting weather patterns and rapid Arctic warming to intensify heat across the world’s fastest-warming continent.

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Why is Europe heating up faster than the rest of the world?

Europe is in the grip of an early-season heatwave, with record May temperatures driven by a “heat dome” of hot air over the western part of the continent. Scientists point to human-caused emissions, shifting atmospheric patterns and rapid Arctic warming as key factors amplifying extreme heat across the region.

Euronews

El Niño looms: Near-record sea temperatures in April raise fears of more global heat

The last major El Niño event saw a string of heat records, and scientists fear warming seas signal more extreme weather to come.

Euronews

Japan announces new name for days over 40C after hottest summer ever

‘Kokushobi’ will be used in weather forecasts to warn that extreme heat is on the way.

Space

Satellite sees snowy Greenland peaks from space | Space photo of the day for Jan. 14, 2026

Greenland's mountains greatly affect local climate patterns.

Radio France Internationale

Earth records third-hottest year in 2025 as global heat streak grows

Earth logged its third-hottest year on record in 2025, figures released on Wednesday showed, extending an unprecedented run of global heat and pushing the planet closer to a key warming limit.

The Independent UK

Scientists call another near-record hot year a 'warning shot' of a shifting, dangerous climate

Scientists calculate that last year was the third-hottest on record, following 2024 and 2023

Euronews

Copernicus: 2025 was the third-hottest year globally and in Europe - with two main drivers

The past 11 years have been the warmest on record globally. Europe is warming significantly faster than the global average.

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