South Europe hit by extreme heat
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South-Eastern Europe reels from a wave of extremely hot weather that has killed more than 30 people.
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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 brought further deaths and sparked fires.
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BERLIN, Jun 23 (IPS) - The weather conditions in the heart of Europe were  abnormal last year -- the summer too hot, too dry, and too long,  and the winter too warm. But they were excellent for some foreign  species, which, benefiting from the changed weather, settled in  Germany, and have become a headache -- or worse -- for farmers  and just about everybody else.
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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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BROOKLIN, Canada, Dec 9 (IPS) - British scientists say they now have proof linking  Europe's deadly heat wave of 2003 to climate change caused  by human activities, portending a raft of lawsuits against  countries and companies.
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Southern Europe sizzled under a heat wave Tuesday, with temperatures hitting triple digits for a seventh day in Romania, blazes forcing the evacuation of tourists in Croatia and Italy, and wildfires in Macedonia and Greece exploding shells from long-ago wars. At least 35 heat-related deaths were reported.
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A storm accompanied by violent gusts of wind, heavy snowfalls and chilling temperatures knifed into the center of Europe after earlier causing major disruption in Scandinavia and Poland.
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Up to 500 people are estimated to have died across Hungary last week, partly due to a heatwave gripping central and southeast Europe, Hungarian medical officials said on Tuesday.
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South-eastern Europe swelters as a continuing heatwave stokes fears of new power cuts and forest 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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Up to 500 people are estimated to have  died across Hungary last week, partly due to a heatwave  gripping central and southeast Europe, Hungarian medical  officials said on Tuesday.
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The record warmth in the Alps has brought home the profound threat of climate change to Europeâs ski industry.
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Fires in southern Greece blamed on high temperatures, drought and arsonists.
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At least 25 deaths were blamed on an excessive eight-day heatwave in Southern California that finally started to cool on Wednesday.
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Human activity has raised the risk of more heatwaves like last year's, which gave Europe probably its hottest summer since 1500, scientists said on Wednesday.
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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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Climate change is affecting Europe faster than the rest of the world and rising temperatures could transform the Mediterranean into a salty and stagnant sea