23rd July - Today's News: More Wildfires and Drought in Britain and Europe

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 river levels approach all-time low as drought announcement looms

Irish national 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 temperatures soar over 40C, marking first 'cruelly hot day'

Why Argentina's Salta felt like a Delhi summer in winter, breaking 100-year records

Brazil's Amazon sees sharp decline in size of area burned in 2025

Legal logging and soaring saplings: the ‘green islands’ bucking the deforestation trend in central America

And even camels can't cope: Africa's ships of the desert hit by rising temperatures

 

 

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