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Norway's Svalbard archipelago viewed from a satellite

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2022 was Europe’s hottest summer but warmer years are likely to come

Europe had the hottest summer on record and the second warmest year ever in 2022, according to the latest European State of the Climate report

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Berlin monument

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Can Europe cut its electricity consumption enough to avoid blackouts?

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Firefighters in Louchats, France, on 17 July 2022

Environment

European wildfires have released a record amount of carbon

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Sign on motorway warning of severe weather

Environment

Temperature hits 40°C on the UK's hottest day on record

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Red Cross workers distributing water

Environment

Europe swelters as extreme heatwaves arrive unusually early this year

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planes

Environment

European airlines have been lobbying against EU climate plans

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Pile of old computers

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The EU may make recycling e-waste a legal requirement – will it work?

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People wait in a vaccination centre in Nice, France

Health

Europeans get cold feet over covid-19 vaccines as third wave hits

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German floods

Environment

Recent decades of European floods are among the worst in 500 years

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Deforestation

Environment

Fifth of Brazilian beef exports to EU linked to illegal deforestation

Around 20 per cent of the beef and soya the Euopean Union imports from Brazil has been linked to illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest and Cerrado savanna

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Environment

Satellites reveal a 49 per cent increase in tree felling in Europe

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Society

Getting Brexit done: Six huge science issues the UK must resolve

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What’s it like to be a rabbit?

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Humans

Graphene inventor Andre Geim: No-deal Brexit would destroy UK science

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