More than 191m people in Europe face temperatures over 35C, with extreme heat warnings from Germany to Hungary
‘A sad inevitability’: after decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat?
Poland, Czechia and Slovakia are braced for record temperatures of over 40C as a heatwave linked to hundreds of deaths in western Europe spreads east.
More than 191 million people in Europe faced temperatures of at least 35C on Sunday, with extreme heat warnings in Germany, Czechia, Poland and Hungary.
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06/28/2026 - 06:06
If Andy Burnham chooses the energy secretary, Labour could fully use the benefits of net zero to promote growth and jobs
It should have been a great week for Ed Miliband and his mission to decarbonise the UK economy. Western Europe has experienced one of its worst ever heatwaves, providing powerful evidence of the need to transition away from fossil-fuel-driven energy production to reduce the carbon emissions that are contributing to global heating.
Instead, however, he has been attacked by an unholy alliance of trade unions and leading City figures, apparently determined to prevent him becoming chancellor in the cabinet of the presumptive new prime minister, Andy Burnham.
Josh Ryan-Collins is professor of economics and finance at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose
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06/28/2026 - 04:34
As extreme weather events become more common, economists say government will need to take more active role to protect consumers
Anyone attempting to notch up a productive day’s work in the searing heat of southern England this last week was left in little doubt about the impact of extreme weather.
But the economic effects of the climate crisis for the UK are not confined to the many hours lost to quietly perspiring – or fetching kids dismissed early from scorching classrooms.
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06/27/2026 - 20:03
Premier Chris Minns says he wants to restore confidence to beachgoers after series of shark sightings and attacks
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Shark-spotting drones will fly from dawn to dusk throughout the year at 70 beaches in New South Wales under an expanded monitoring program, the state government says.
The NSW premier, Chris Minns, said the $34m initiative would restore confidence to beachgoers after a series of shark sightings and attacks. They include one by a great white shark on Sydney mother Leah Stewart, who is no longer in a critical condition following the attack at Coogee beach earlier this month.
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06/27/2026 - 10:08
Denmark experiences highest temperature on record on Saturday as weather system spreads eastward
Europe heatwave – latest updates
Germany and Italy endured sweltering conditions on Saturday as a heatwave linked to dozens of deaths in western Europe spread eastwards, after temperatures broke records above 40C (104F).
Denmark registered its highest temperature on record on Saturday, according to the Danish meteorological institute. “With 36.6C north of Odense, we have the warmest day ever since measurements began in 1874,” it said in a post on X.
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06/27/2026 - 09:29
Decision leaves in place Biden-era standard on pollution from coal-fired plants, factories and other industrial sources
A federal appeals court on Friday rejected the Environmental Protection Agency’s attempt to abandon a Biden-era rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot pollution.
The unanimous ruling by a three-judge panel is a setback for the Trump administration’s deregulatory agenda and its repeated efforts to boost coal, a reliable but polluting energy source.
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06/27/2026 - 04:02
Temperature records broken in Germany, Denmark and Slovakia as Europe remains gripped by heatwave
After decades of climate warnings, why is Europe so unprepared for rising heat?
Seawater is seeping into Italy’s longest river as the waterway starts to run dry in the heatwave, hitting a farming heartland that produces the milk for Parmesan cheese.
The Po River has never fallen this low so early in the year, raising fears of a devastating drought in July in this corner of northern Italy.
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06/27/2026 - 01:00
Hotels report increase in last-minute bookings, including from families attempting to escape hot homes
Europe heatwave: latest updates
Families, including parents with newborn babies, are booking air-conditioned rooms in hotels to escape the UK heatwave, with companies reporting a surge in demand.
Data from the accommodation reservation website Booking.com shows that since 1 June, the share of searches using the “air-conditioning” filter has tripled across Great Britain coinciding with the latest heatwave in northern Europe.
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06/26/2026 - 21:50
Accumulation on Switzerland’s glaciers from last winter expected to all be gone by Monday amid ‘enormous’ melt rates across Alps
Europe heatwave: latest updates
Swiss glaciers are set to lose an enormous amount of ice due to the heatwave battering Europe, according to the head of Glacier Monitoring in Switzerland (Glamos).
The snow and ice accumulated last winter by Switzerland’s glaciers is expected to have all melted away by Monday, marking the alarming second-earliest arrival on record of the tipping point known as glacier loss day.
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06/26/2026 - 15:38
Environmentalists and immigrant-rights advocates seek accounting of damage done by notorious detention center
While they welcome the recent closure of the controversial Alligator Alcatraz migrant detention center, leading environmental groups and their allies say they want an independent investigation into the environmental damage the facility inflicted on the surrounding wilderness during its 12 months of operations.
Those groups made that demand alongside immigrant-rights advocates and members of Florida’s Miccosukee Tribe at a news conference on Friday outside the entrance to the shuttered detention center, where the Friends of the Everglades (FOE) executive director, Eve Samples, condemned the camp as a “failure, an obscene waste of taxpayer dollars and an abuse of the Everglades”.
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