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'Measures needed to face extreme heat or it will kill us,' Copernicus director says

As scorching weather hits Europe, climate expert Carlo Buontempo told Euronews' flagship morning show Europe Today that "record-breaking temperatures should not be breaking news" and that strategies are needed to face extreme weather lest humanity suffers the consequences.

Euronews

How Europe’s rapid warming has fuelled a record May heatwave

Europe is bracing for more extreme heat after record May temperatures swept across Britain, Ireland and France this week – with scientists saying a “heat dome” over western Europe is combining with human-driven climate change, shifting weather patterns and rapid Arctic warming to intensify heat across the world’s fastest-warming continent.

Radio France Internationale

Why is Europe heating up faster than the rest of the world?

Europe is in the grip of an early-season heatwave, with record May temperatures driven by a “heat dome” of hot air over the western part of the continent. Scientists point to human-caused emissions, shifting atmospheric patterns and rapid Arctic warming as key factors amplifying extreme heat across the region.

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Why is Europe heating twice as fast as the rest of the planet?

Europe has been warming twice as fast as the global average since 1980, a new report shows, with 2025 marked by extended heatwaves across the continent, from the Arctic to the Mediterranean. RFI examines the reasons why.

Radio France Internationale

Earth records third-hottest year in 2025 as global heat streak grows

Earth logged its third-hottest year on record in 2025, figures released on Wednesday showed, extending an unprecedented run of global heat and pushing the planet closer to a key warming limit.

Radio France Internationale

Third-hottest July On Record Wreaks Climate Havoc

The third-hottest July worldwide ended a string of record-breaking temperatures, but many regions were devastated by extreme weather amplified by global warming, the European climate monitoring service said Thursday.

International Business Times

World sees second-hottest May on record as Europe faces rising drought concerns

Persistent dry conditions have led to the lowest spring river flow across Europe since records began in 1992

Euronews

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Month of May was world’s second-warmest on record: EU scientists

The biggest temperature increases were recorded in the Middle East, West Asia, northeast Russia, and north Canada.

Al Jazeera

Earth records hottest year ever in 2024 and the jump was so big it breached a key threshold

Global temperatures in 2024 soared to yet another record level, but this time it was such a big jump that Earth temporarily passed a major symbolic climate threshold

The Independent UK

European climate agency says this will likely be the hottest year on record -- again

It's now virtually certain 2024 will be the hottest year on record, and the first with over 1.5 degrees Celsius (2.7 degrees Fahrenheit) of warming above the pre-industrial average, according to the European climate agency Copernicus

The Independent UK

This year ‘virtually certain’ to be hottest on record, finds EU space programme

Copernicus Climate Change Service says 2024 marks ‘a new milestone’ and should raise ambitions at Cop29 summit

The Guardian - UK

Summer 2024 is the hottest ever recorded on Earth, say European climate scientists

‘What those sober numbers indicate is how the climate crisis is tightening its grip on us,’ said one expert

Evening Standard

Summer 2024 hottest ever recorded, EU climate change monitor says

Scientists have confirmed that summer 2024 broke global heat records for the second consecutive year, making 2024 likely to be the hottest year in recorded history. Data from Copernicus, Europe’s climate change service, shows June to August as the hottest period since records began in 1940.

France 24

Earth breaks yet another record for hottest summer

The European climate service Copernicus says Earth just sweltered to its hottest summer on record

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The Independent UK

A slight temperature drop makes Tuesday the world's second-hottest day

Global temperatures have dropped slightly after breaking the all-time heat record the two previous days

International Business Times

July 21 Hottest Day Ever Recorded Globally: EU Climate Monitor

July 21 was the hottest day ever registered globally, according to preliminary data published Tuesday by the EU's climate monitor.

International Business Times

February Marks 9th Straight Month Of Record-smashing Global Heat: Climate Monitor

Last month was the warmest February on record globally, the ninth straight month of historic high temperatures across the planet as climate change steers the world into "uncharted territory", Europe's climate monitor said Thursday.

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Earth is on track for its hottest year yet, according to a European climate agency

The report from the Copernicus Climate Change Service also noted that Earth set a new mark for how far above normal temperatures reached in September.

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Evening Standard

‘Gobsmackingly bananas’: Scientists shocked by September’s record-breaking heat

Scientists describe new record-breaking heat in September as ‘absolutely gobsmackingly bananas’

The Independent UK

September sizzled to records and was so much warmer than average scientists call it 'mind-blowing'

After a record-smashing hot summer, Earth's warming somehow got even worse in September

The Independent UK

July has been so blistering hot, scientists already calculate that it's the warmest month on record

July has been so hot so far that scientists calculate that this month will be the globally hottest on record and likely the warmest human civilization has seen, even though there are several days left to sweat through

Reuters

World could face record temperatures in 2023 as El Nino returns

The world could breach a new average temperature record in 2023 or 2024, fuelled by climate change and the anticipated return of the El Nino weather phenomenon, climate scientists say.

Radio France Internationale

Weather forecasters predict an unusually warm European winter

Europe faces a higher than usual chance of a cold blast of weather before the end of the year, but the winter overall is likely to be warmer than average, the continent's long-range weather forecaster has said.

Bangkok Post

Europe heading for 'warmer than usual' winter

PARIS: Europe faces a higher-than-usual chance of a cold blast of weather before the end of the year, but the winter overall is likely to be warmer than average, the continent's long-range weather forecaster said Thursday.

The Guardian - UK

Colder early winter in Europe could worsen cost of living crisis, say forecasters

European meteorological agency warns La Niña weather pattern makes cold and dry snap more likely

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