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Wildfires rage across parts of France, Spain and Italy with  thousands evacuated in France fires 'Unprecedented': France records 5,764 excess deaths during June-July heatwave period Increasingly hot Europe faces more severe droughts and growing challenges for water and land management Food price fears after Europe’s heatwave destroys estimated €2bn of crops - you can't say you weren't warned!  No helicopters to fight wildfires as 'crisis management' plans activated in Wales Slievenamon wildfire enters fourth day as firefighters battle blaze Emergency services urge people to stay away as Cairngorms wildfire operations continue into next week Welsh r iver levels approach all-time low as drought announcement looms Irish n ational hosepipe ban comes into force on Friday amid drought fears Tropical storm Bertha makes landfall in Louisiana with 45mph winds In Kazakhstan:  'It will get worse': World’s second-coldest capital faces record heat Japan temperatur...

Floods Sweep Russia's Urals After 40-Year Rainfall Record Falls  Is UK facing drought for second summer in a row?  Does Scotland have the 'game changer' helicopters it needs to fight wildfires?   No! Italy expands red heat alert to 18 cities as 3rd heat wave persists  as  'summer keeps snapping back': meteorologist explains persistent heatwave pattern Ca nadian wildfires rage as Trump warns Carney again over 'poisoning' US air Tropical Storm Bertha threatens US Gulf coast Australian ski resorts smash July climate records with temperatures 12C above average Slowdown in Arctic ice melt ends after largest winter decline on record At least 20 dead and more than 100 missing in Afghan floods  whilst a t least 25 killed as floods and landslides hit northern India Meanwhile, h eat wave in Afghanistan raises health, environmental concerns Rare 48C heatwave forces Uzbekistan to adapt to extreme temperatures   More h eavy rains batter South Korea prompting emerge...

It's been the l ongest dry spell in 30 years for parts of England as heatwave hits two-week mark  but finally the h eatwave set to end after temperatures exceed 30C for 13th day in a row Ireland on course for its longest-ever heatwave as public warned over water safety Multiple wildfire incidents prompt evacuations and fire service response Cairngorms wildfire is 'not contained' and still burning hard, residents warn - at least the BBC now acknowledge the fire started near Ryvoan, and not at the bothy itself! Meanwhile, in the southern Pennines, a m ajor incident still in place as wildfire continues three weeks after it first broke out.   Spain's largest wildfire of the year burns 12,000 hectares in Zaragoza In British Colombia, erratic winds, threat of lightning make Boston Bar firefighting efforts challenging, wildfire service says What to know about the Canadian and US wildfires and their impact .  Meanwhile, p etulant 6 year old girlie  Trump threatens new Canad...

  Firefighters battle through the night as wildfire burns across Cairngorms National Park In Ireland, d rought conditions prevalent in parts of south of country amid high temperature warning As the Met Office issue their latest " State of the Climate Report "  climate extremes are becoming the new ‘normal’ for the UK France grapples with 'very worrying' drought after successive heatwaves Severe storms leave 13,000 households without power across France How  Europe’s heat wave set records for all-time highs in June Canada wildfires leave train 'encased in flames' as smoke drifts towards US  whilst r ecord-smashing US heat wave surges from West to East and    m illions in Canada swelter as heatwave continues to move east F lash flood emergency issued for Camp Mystic disaster area as rivers rise in southern Texas Saturn has a six-sided storm system wider than Earth, and scientists still cannot fully explain why its perfect shape refuses to disappear ...

Major incident declared in Wales as firefighters tackle wildfires across UK  with the  Welsh w ildfire expected to spread due to heatwave as 36 homes evacuated Badly burned British couple rescued from ravine during Spain wildfires, reports say Planes sent to tackle wildfires of 'exceptional scale' near Paris France temporarily shuts down three nuclear reactors over heatwave More than 2,700 people may have died in exceptional May and June heatwaves in England and Wales Flash flooding in Missouri leaves one person dead as 200 campers are rescued China evacuates nearly two million people as powerful typhoon makes landfall Heavy rains and flash floods in Bangladesh leave 51 dead Bomb the Arctic, dam the Mediterranean and build a second moon: five outlandish plans to remodel our climate And the 13 biggest myths about heatwaves – and how to bust them  

East Asia braces for destructive typhoon as landslides kill 15 in Philippines  as the t yphoon lashes Japan's southern islands Spain battles to contain one of its deadliest wildfires as at least 12 killed Up to 38°C at the weekend: how long will this heatwave last in Germany? UK bakes in 35C highs as millions under hosepipe bans  with another n ew record as temperatures hit 35C or above on six separate days this year 'It's 50C in the polytunnel' - workers tackle the heat In Reading,  1976’s 30°C record set to be overtaken by scorching 2026 Missouri declares state of emergency over severe storms and flooding Record rainfall pounds South Korea as flood risks rise And how a  popular climate fix could accidentally trigger massive changes to global weather