South Europe hit by extreme heat
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South-Eastern Europe reels from a wave of extremely hot weather that has killed several people.
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Breaking news in recent years has been swamped with stories of extreme weather -- flash floods in East Asia, prolonged drought in Africa, destructive hurricanes like Hurricane Katrina, heavy monsoon rainfall in South Asia, and an historic heat wave in Europe.
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COPENHAGEN -- Rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers in the Alps, and more deadly heat waves are coming for Europeans because of global warming, Europe's environmental agency warned yesterday.
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The European Environment Agency reported global climate change, including frequent floods, droughts and heat waves, are severe and will continue to worsen.
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Global warming caused by human activity has more than doubled the risk of summers as hot as in 2003, when thousands of people in Europe died of heat-related causes, according to a UK study published in the journal Nature.
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SCORCHING summers, hotter than that of 2003, could become more common in Europe by the middle of this century. The risk has more than doubled because of human activity producing increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
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COPENHAGEN -- Rising sea levels, disappearing glaciers in the Alps, and more deadly heat waves are coming for Europeans because of global warming, Europe's environmental agency warned yesterday. The European Environment Agency said much more needs to be done -- and fast. Climate change &quot;will considerably affect our societies and environments for decades and centuries to come,&quot; its 107-page report ...
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Europeans must be prepared to adapt to massive climate change over the coming decades, warn environmental researchers. Among the changes: hotter summers, milder winters and less precipitation in Southern Europe. By Wendy Grossman.
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Torrential downpours around Britain left one dead and hundreds stranded on Monday as storms continued to batter Russia and a heatwave in southern Europe led to further deaths and sparked fires.
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"The next few hours will be critical"  Forest fires whipped by gale-force winds killed at least 15 people in southern Greece Friday, including at least nine people trapped in their cars as the flames approached.Across the country, more than 150 fires were burning, and the government appealed to the European Union to 'send any help they can,' acting Interior Minister Spyros Flogaitis said after an emergency meeting of Greece's civil protection department.Hot, dry winds gusting to gale force prevented firefighting planes from taking off, leaving only ground forces to fight the flames in the southern Peloponnese, with occasional help from helicopters and residents using their garden hoses. A three-day heat wave, with temperatures up to 104 degrees, has left forests and scrubland parched on the peninsula linked to the Greek mainland by a narrow isthmus. Read more
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Fires in southern Greece blamed on high temperatures, drought and arsonists.
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GORAZDEVAC, Serbia and Montenegro  - Milisav Dakic  said his wife had warned him not to let the children play  outside their Serb enclave in Kosovo. But the summer heat was  stifling, and the nearby stream was a popular place to cool  off.
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A searing heatwave has killed at least 44 people across southern Europe while in Britain torrential rain claimed three lives and forced hundreds to flee a creaking dam.
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This week&#39;s issue of Nature features the first study to demonstrate a link between greenhouse gas emissions and an extreme weather event - in this case, the unusually high temperatures in Europe during the summer of 2003 that led to 14,000 deaths more
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Up to 500 people in Hungary have died in a heatwave in the past week, a top health official says.
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Families throughout Europe are spending anxious hours desperate for news of loved ones after giant waves slammed into some of the world's most popular south Asian resorts at peak season, killing thousands of ...
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By Patrick O'Driscoll  Severe drought and record heat in Southern California are making March feel like July, and with dangerous results.