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Hot days are getting hotter in north-west Europe – and the region is poorly equipped to cope.
A couple weeks of rain doesn’t make up for months of dry weather.
Britain is suffering through its worst drought since the 1970s.
Flash flooding often follows periods of drought.
Unlike this time, the dry summer of 1976 followed a particularly dry year.
Adapt to climate change with insulated walls, window shutters and reverse-cycle heat pumps.
In the UK, ethnic minorities are four times more likely to live in the most vulnerable neighbourhoods.
Global heating may be making the weather systems behind heatwaves more common in Europe.
With extreme weather events becoming more common, the fire and rescue service will need to change its approach.
Traditionally cool countries need to look at how nations with high levels of heat adapt.
Step one: check the thermometer isn’t next to an ice cream van or barbecue.
Summer heat may be far from people’s minds here in Australia. But Europe’s ordeal is yet another sign changes in Earth’s climate have already reached dangerous levels.
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DPhil Candidate in Environmental Research, University of Oxford
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