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Deaths spiked in northwest Europe in June, where countries were unprepared for extreme heat that hit much of the continent.

Reception centres open to thousands of evacuees after blaze begins in pine forest 45km west of Bordeaux * Europe live – latest updates More than 20,000 people, including thousands of tourists from campsites and other holiday accommodation, have been evacuated as a “particularly intense” wildfire advances on the Atlantic coast of south-west France, authorities have said. The blaze, which began in dense pine forest near the village of Saumos about 40km (25 miles) west of Bordeaux and just north of the bay of Arcachon, a popular tourist destination, had burned 2,400 hectares (5,928 acres) in less than 24 hours, firefighters said on Thursday. Continue reading...

Die Zahl der Hitzetoten übertrifft schon zur Jahresmitte die Werte ganzer Vorjahre, so das Robert-Koch-Institut.

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France has its hottest night on record, 15 Italian cities under red heat alert and UN chief says London is ‘cooking’ * Europe heatwave live – latest updates Forty people have drowned while swimming in unsupervised areas across France in recent days, the prime minister has said, as people across the country sought respite from the record-breaking heatwave sweeping across much of Europe. “There is a tragic scourge of drownings,” Sébastien Lecornu said on Tuesday. “The latest figures we’ve received are 40 deaths since 18 June. Most of the victims are young people.” Continue reading...

Temperatures expected to hit 40C in parts of the UK, as extreme heatwave spreads slowly eastwards, sparking warnings in Italy and the Netherlands * France records hottest day ever as 40 people drown across country * Tell us: how is the heatwave in the UK and across Europe affecting you? Some relief from the heatwave could start to come from the west of Europe later today, when Spain’s national weather service said temperatures would drop in most of the country. By the afternoon, only parts of the Basque country in the north will still be marked red, and on Thursday no part of Spain will be rated either red or orange. Continue reading...

Die Zahl heißer Tage steigt europaweit an. Daher fordert die Bundesärztekammer bessere Schutzmaßnahmen für Kommunen, so ihr Präsident Klaus Reinhardt.

Louisiana’s cultural hotspot could be surrounded by Gulf of Mexico before end of this century, authors say

Seated in a luxurious home with a lion cub on his lap, “Rabbi Finance” explains that “the Jews” are about to get very rich because of the Iran war. It sounds like a run-of-the-mill antisemitic caricat...

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Im vergangenen Jahr fielen die Kosten durch Naturkatastrophen niedriger aus als noch 2024. Nach Einschätzung eines Versicherers keine Entwarnung, sondern "pures Glück".

Emergency managers say the US president has presided over a dangerous erosion in US capacity to prepare for and respond to natural disasters

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Die Erderwärmung hat laut einer Schätzung zu rund 16.500 zusätzlichen Hitzetoten in europäischen Städten geführt.

Es fehlt an Schutzräumen, Ausrüstung und Warnsystemen: Lange wurde der Katastrophenschutz stiefmütterlich behandelt. Nun will Innenminister Dobrindt nachrüsten. Zehn Milliarden Euro seien das Investit...

Extremwetter-Ereignisse bringen viele negative Folgen mit sich - auch finanziell.

Track Donald Trump's golf outings and the cost to taxpayers.