Humans Raise Risk of Europe Heatwaves -Scientists
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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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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 Wednesday.
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South-Eastern Europe reels from a wave of extremely hot weather that has killed several people.
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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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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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The government's chief scientist says UK must prepare for heatwaves and torrential rain.
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Southeastern Europe baked under soaring temperatures Friday, with nearly 30 deaths across the region blamed on the year's first major heat wave. Electricity supplies, particularly in Greece and Albania, were strained as air conditioning use spiked.Temperatures reached 104 degrees in Athens on Friday, with a top recorded temperature of 113 degrees on the island of Rhodes, according to state NET television.Romania was particularly hard hit. Nineteen people have died of heat-related causes in the past few days, including 14 in the capital, Bucharest, the country's Health Ministry said. Read more
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Relatives of elderly people killed by heat waves could one day launch legal action against greenhouse gas polluters in the light of new research published today.
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The death toll from Romania&#39;s heat  wave rose to 15 on Sunday after six more people died in the  Black Sea country where temperatures hovered around 40 degrees  Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), Health Minister Eugen Nicolaescu  said.
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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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South-eastern Europe swelters as a continuing heatwave stokes fears of new power cuts and forest fires.
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BELGRADE, Sep 20 (IPS) - As rain falls and autumn approaches, countries  across the Balkans are taking stock of the damage caused by one  of the hottest summers in recent times, with temperatures in the  40s since mid-June until the beginning of September.
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Images from south-eastern Europe where people are experiencing a heat wave.
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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, Italian experts said Wednesday.
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Dozens of people across southern Europe have perished in a blistering heatwave while storms whipped the north of the continent and floods claimed four lives in Britain, officials said Wednesday.
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A rise of 1 degree Celsius could be enough to trigger 'dangerous' warming, scientists warn.
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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.