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Mark Rutte has made it! NATO finally appointed the outgoing Dutch prime minister as its next boss. This move became a formality after his only rival for the post, Romania’s president Klaus Iohannis, quit the race, his bid having failed to gain traction. NATO leaders will officially welcome him to their table at a summit in Washington in a little over a week. For Ukraine, the appointment of Rutte, a fierce critic of Vladimir Putin who described the so-called Russian peace plan as "absolutely crazy", was great news. And there was more good news for Kyiv this week. The EU formally opened talks on...
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London carried out a training exercise to test its ability to cope with 40C heat on Thursday. Named ‘Operation Helios’ after the Greek god of the sun, it explored a scenario where extreme heat hits the capital for five days - one scientists warn could be a reality as early as 2027. It was led by Greater London Authority’s London Resilience Unit and involved more than 80 participants from emergency services to local government, environment agencies and transport companies. It comes after the London Climate Resilience Review published a report in March which recommended that the city test its pr...
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Heatwave warnings are already coming thick and fast across Europe this summer, as experts predict another record-hot year driven by climate change. But it can be hard to gauge how dangerous they are to you in particular. A new tool seeks to bridge that gap by forecasting how likely you are to die when hot weather hits different places in Europe. The data is based on age and sex. Around 70,000 people died from heat-related causes during summer 2022 in Europe, according to researchers at the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The same team has taken past mortality data and combine...
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As the Balkans baked in temperatures hovering or exceeding 40 degrees Celsius in June, leaving up to six foreigners dead or missing, the Greek government is warning tourists of the dangers associated with the extreme heat. Greek Minister of Health Adonis Georgiadis said holidaymakers need to be "very careful" while visiting the country as it grapples with soaring temperatures, and to not take "unnecessary risks". "We have had cases of foreign travellers who lost their lives in Greece. They lost their lives because they underestimated the phenomenon," he told reporters at a press conference. Wa...
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One of three individuals in Switzerland that recently went missing in the Alpine valley of Misox in Graubünden due to a rockslide has been found dead, according to Swiss authorities on Sunday. “Today is a sad day,” said Ignazio Cassis, member of the Swiss Federal Council. She addressed reporters on Sunday after travelling to the region to show solidarity with the victims on behalf of the Swiss Federal Government. A team of 200 rescuers have searched for the missing individuals with excavators, search dogs, drones and army helicopters since the area was affected by the landslide on Friday. Will...
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Three people were missing on Saturday after massive thunderstorms and rainfall in southeastern Switzerland caused a landslide, authorities said. One woman was pulled out alive after being buried by the landslide in the Alpine valley of Misox in Graubünden. A rescue operation for the three others is ongoing. The rockslide hit a group of houses in the municipality of Lostallo. Rescuers have been searching all day Saturday with excavators and specially-trained search dogs. William Kloter from the Swiss police, who is heading the rescue operations, told local media that he was hoping to find the t...
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A major hours long power outage hit much of the Balkans on Friday as the southern European region sweltered in an early heat wave that sent temperatures soaring to more than 40 degrees Celsius. Montenegrin authorities said that an outage that lasted for several hours in the country's power distribution system left almost the entire nation without electricity. Similar problems were reported in the coastal part of Croatia, and in Bosnia and Albania. Nada Pavicevic, a spokeswoman for Montenegro's state power distribution company, described the outage as a “disturbance of regional proportion,” and...
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Human-caused climate change made this month's killer heatwaves in Mexico, Central American and the US southwest even warmer and 35 times more likely, a new study has found. Sizzling daytime temperatures that triggered cases of heat stroke in parts of the United States were 1.4C hotter because of the warming from the burning of coal, oil and natural gas, World Weather Attribution, a collection of scientists that run rapid and non-peer reviewed climate attribution studies, calculated on Thursday. “It's an oven here; you can't stay here,” says 82-year-old Margarita Salazar Pérez of Veracruz, Mexi...
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Sitting on the tiny Thai island of Koh Mak as lightning flashed on the horizon, my eyes were glued to the AccuWeather app. I was mesmerised by the storm tracking feature, which followed the weather front as it erratically skirted my cliffside bungalow. On an island so obscure that it was absent from the world map up until the late 1960s - when German tourists became some of the first European visitors to what they dubbed the ‘Lost World’ - I wondered how a US weather service could so accurately predict the conditions here. So I decided to find out. What does it take to deliver some of the worl...
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Heatwaves have hit Europe earlier than ever this year, with Greece, Cyprus, Türkiye and Italy already hit by extreme heat, with some places seeing temperatures 10C above the seasonal average. The risk of heatwaves at the Paris Olympic Games has left organisers sweating about the safety of athletes. Spain is bracing itself for another blistering summer, releasing a new map to help with more accurate heatwave predictions. Cities across the continent are preparing with adaptations for extreme heat. We’ve now had 11 record-breaking months of heat in a row and sea surface temperatures in the North ...
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