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As summer temperatures soar across the United States and Europe, cities are being forced to confront the difficult reality that they're getting dangerously hot.
Eleven years into a migration crisis, Greece is trying to stop boats crossing from North Africa to the Greek island of Crete. Five European Union countries have made a breakthrough in their efforts to deport migrants crossing the Mediterranean Sea. Uganda in East Africa has agreed to accept them, although the deal has.
Decades of climate change have not left Europe's mountain vegetation unscathed. However, the changes observed do not always match expectations. As a new international study by a research team led by researchers from the University of Vienna, the Austrian Academy of Sciences and the BOKU University shows, alpine vegetat.
France last month became the first country in the European Union to pass a blanket ban on the platforms amid rising worldwide concerns about the harmful effects of digital content on kids.
The continent’s railways and roads “were engineered for a climate that no longer exists,” one expert said.
The United States could exhaust its domestic phosphorus supply within 40 years. Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia already depend on imports from China and Morocco to meet their needs. Without phosphorus, crops cannot grow—and without a reliable supply of the mineral, the world's food supply is at risk.
Extreme temperatures and repeated wildfires are pushing infrastructure to the limit and testing the continent’s resolve.
Another day of near record heat baked the continent on Friday, but temperatures could retreat to seasonal averages in the coming days.
At least eight people died in Japan as heavy rains flooded roads and disrupted traffic while firefighters from Britain to France and Croatia struggled to contain blazes in Europe's fifth heatwave this summer (Image credit: PHILIP FONG).
An analysis of 103 European cities' climate-neutral plans for 2030 (including 22 capital cities) shows that municipalities are planning to rely on carbon removal to compensate for about a fifth of their emissions. This would mean removing roughly 61 million tonnes of emissions from the atmosphere—close to Austria's ann.
A bird strike may have been the cause of an incident in which a passenger was nearly sucked out of a broken window aboard a Ryanair flight in Europe last month, the NTSB found.
Britain, like France, is experiencing its fifth heat wave of the year, with the first recorded in May.
A total solar eclipse brought darkness to parts of Europe, the only time the phenomenon will be visible to humans in 2026. CBS News' Rob Marciano has more on the stunning moments.
American flags fly at the New York Stock Exchange in New York, New York. —Sven Hoppe—Getty Images The world is not selling America short, even if Americans sometimes do. After spending much of the past few months traveling from Europe to India to China, I’ve been struck by the disconnect between how many Americans talk.
On August 12, 2026, a total solar eclipse awed onlookers throughout Europe, including in Spain and the United Kingdom. Video Producer: Martina Di Licosa.
With temperatures set to soar as high as 109 degrees Fahrenheit (43 Celsius) this week, Europeans and tourists say that summer in Europe has lost its appeal.
New EU restrictions on toxic substances known as "forever chemicals" in food packaging kicked in Wednesday, along with broader rules aimed at cutting packaging waste in the bloc.
The climate crisis is hitting Europe hard in 2026, warming twice as fast as any other continent – and the consequences are deadly The whole world is getting hotter as carbon pollution from fossil fuel burning traps ever more heat, but Europe is heating up twice as fast as other continents. The consequences are increasi.
Derrick Pitts, chief astronomer at the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia, joins "The Daily Report" to break down what to expect from the solar eclipse on Wednesday.
The Perseids’ peak coincides with another highly anticipated celestial event: a total solar eclipse that will be visible in parts of Europe.
Globally, so far this is the third-hottest year, behind 2024 and 2025, climate statistics show.
Valve says a data breach may have exposed the personal information of customers who ordered its Steam hardware in Europe. In an email sent to users, Valve says its European shipping partner, CEVA Logistics, suffered a data breach that may have included customer names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. The.
The total solar eclipse of 2024, seen from Dallas, Texas —NASA/Keegan Barber Just for the record, a celestial dragon will not eat the sun on Aug. 12, 2026. Nor will a mythic wolf named Sköll chase the sun through the sky, catching it and biting it. And nor will the sun be swallowed by a giant squirrel. But don’t tell t.
Western Europe experienced its hottest June–July on record as climate change fuels a historic summer of heat, drought and wildfires across the region, the EU's global warming monitor said Monday.
Nature, Published online: 06 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02430-7 Two very different methods are used to estimate the human toll of heatwaves such as those now hitting parts of Asia and Europe.
EU’s smallest country has played ancient Rome, the Land of Spells and Bay of Pentos and draws more than 30 productions annually What links the Caribbean, ancient Rome, Enid Blyton’s Land of Spells, the south of France and the Bay of Pentos from Game of Thrones? They are all places that have been portrayed in recent and.
An unprecedented surge of migrants into Spanish territory of Ceuta in North Africa marked the first reignited the European Union’s debate over immigration.
Europe is in another brutal heat wave. The summer's earlier record-breaking weather already damaged crops, sparked wildfires and led to increased deaths. (Image credit: Pablo Blazquez Dominguez/Getty Images).
High temperature warnings were in place across western, central and southern Europe on Sunday as a heat dome intensifies across the continent.
Jorge Messi served as his son's agent and accompanied him to Europe when he signed with Barcelona as a teenager.
The Danube River hasn't been this low in over 200 years. Wildfires are scorching multiple countries in Europe. Less water means less nuclear energy generation, bringing an energy crisis. Ramy Inocencio details Europe's heat wave struggles.
As wildfires rage in parts of the United States and Europe, firefighting efforts have taken to the seas and skies. CBS Saturday Morning takes a look at these remarkable "super scooper" amphibious aircraft.
Britain’s spooks take quiet satisfaction from survey ranking Secret Intelligence Service Europe’s top espionage agency MI6 has the swagger of James Bond; its French equivalent, DGSE, the complexities of the television drama Le Bureau. The film and TV shows may be fictional, but a survey run by a French magazine that pl.
Red high-temperature warnings remained in effect for much of southern and western Italy through Saturday.
The river’s water levels have fallen as extreme heat has afflicted Europe, exposing sunken German vessels from World War II that are impeding navigation.
Slovakia reaches new high of 42C as authorities in Poland forced to shut down Kozienice and Połaniec power plants Europe’s dry riverbeds and scorched earth – in pictures Temperature records have been broken in several countries across central and eastern Europe as the extreme weather that has caused wildfires and droug.
Europe's heat wave exposes buried history and new threats — Nazi-era wrecks emerge from the Danube, nuclear reactors face cooling risks, and Greece battles deadly wildfires. (Image credit: Darko Vojinovic).
Apple is working on a feature that will allow users in the European Union to copy content on their iPhone and paste it onto their Windows PC (or vice versa), as spotted earlier by MacRumors . The move comes in response to an interoperability request from Microsoft that asks Apple to open up its Universal Clipboard feat.
Nature, Published online: 04 August 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02389-5 Sustaining the region’s strong position in the life-sciences sector will require investment and education in bioengineering.
—zpagistock—Getty Images This summer, as record-breaking heat sweeps across Europe and the United States , millions of people are searching for a way to cool off. They crowd into public pools, and libraries turned into cooling centers. They run their air conditioners around the clock—if they have them. They flee to the.
Even in a Europe-focused Nato 3.0, Washington would still want to call the shots. We need an insurance policy How can Europe defend itself against Russia without the US, or with much less of it? This question sums up the existential challenge now facing the continent. Russia’s imperial ambitions start with Ukraine, but.
The EU made some AI labels that companies can use instead of designing their own. | Image: The European Commission / The Verge The European Union has ushered in some additional rules that aim to make it easier for people to identify chatbots and AI deepfakes online. The new transparency obligations under the bloc's lan.
Wildfires west of Athens jumped containment lines, a day after a midair collision between two helicopters killed two crew members.
The four crew members were recovered after the collision, the Greek fire department said, adding that two were recovered safely, while the other two were unconscious.
New EU rules stipulate that people must be told when they’re interacting with AI or looking at AI-generated or -edited content, leading to fear of “disclosure fatigue.”.
Europe sheltered many refugees in 2015. Its hard-line reaction to a new crisis in Ceuta shows how, 11 years on, the far right has reshaped European attitudes.
For Greece, the danger carried grim resonance: a 2018 wildfire at the seaside community of Mati, near Athens, killed 104 people.
Thick smoke from massive wildfires has been spreading in North America and Europe once again in 2026. The health impacts of breathing this particle-filled air are becoming well known, but wildfires' influence on the weather is less widely recognized.
Large Pride events in Hamburg and Amsterdam are underway after last week's deadly ramming attack in Berlin.
Rising temperatures and more frequent heat waves have changed the feel of the season for today’s children, compared with their parents and grandparents.
A summer of weather extremes and severe infrastructure stress has prompted companies and policymakers across Europe to respond.
Hungary's sole nuclear power plant will be shut down next week because of low water levels in the Danube, Prime Minister Peter Magyar said Friday as central Europe slogs through the latest in a series of heat waves.
Climate change, land-use change and socioeconomic pressures are turning wildfires from a primarily ecological process into a complex, systemic risk that cuts across ecosystems, infrastructure, public health, water resources, cultural heritage and rural livelihoods. Despite substantial investments in firefighting capaci.
Huge blazes have forced tens of thousands of residents and vacationers in France and Spain to evacuate.
One of Europe's highest distinctions in condensed matter physics has been awarded for a discovery that is reshaping our understanding of magnetism: The 2026 Europhysics Prize of the European Physical Society (EPS) Condensed Matter Division goes to Professor Jairo Sinova of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU), Dr.
President Trump slapped replacement tariffs on 59 countries and the European Union to replace expiring ones.
Europe's wildfire crisis forced more than 80,000 people to flee for safety Friday, as vacationers boarded boats to escape fires on a French peninsula and Spanish officials ordered mass evacuations in towns near Madrid.
Luggage-clad residents and tourists fled a French peninsula by boat, and the smell of smoke drifted into parts of Madrid on Friday as wildfires swept through parts of Western Europe, triggering states of emergency and calls for EU help.
The European Union adopted new legislation on plants obtained through certain new genomic techniques in June 2026. The new framework will apply after a two-year transition period. It distinguishes between two categories. Plants in Category 1 (NGT-1) have a limited number and type of genetic changes that could also occu.
In Europe, Asia and the Middle East, countries seek nuclear capabilities to hedge against aggressive neighbors and a receding Washington, potentially creating a more freewheeling era.
At a tense moment for trans-Atlantic trade, the European Union accused Google of anti-competitive business practices.
Human-caused climate change has intensified a drought across Europe, with extreme heat rather than low rainfall driving the exceptionally dry conditions, a team of international scientists said Thursday.
In a new study, researchers at Leipzig University have identified a major cause of the unusually severe summer soil drying and rising temperatures across Europe. They found that much of the trend can be attributed to changes in atmospheric circulation patterns—that is, shifts in the weather regimes that typically occur.
The EU's food safety agency said Wednesday it has dramatically reduced the acceptable daily intake level of the so-called forever chemical TFA, following new evidence of its effect on a key hormone that regulates the body's metabolism.
Dorian Godon of France and Netcompany INEOS Cycling Team refreshes during the Tour de France, Stage 9, on July 12, 2026 in Ussel, France. The stage was shortened due to a red alert for a heat wave. —Tim de Waele—Getty Images Through the first two weeks of the 2026 Tour de France, the average temperature of 87.4°F has f.
Greece, which was spared the record heat that ravaged most of Europe in June, is finally bracing for its first heat wave of the year.
"Guardrails" built by the EU to govern AI fall short in both ambition and execution and have become too heavy to absorb rapid changes in technology, a new study in Big Data & Society warns.
A tiny Asian-origin beetle that has devastated ash forests in North America has been detected in the European Union for the first time, in Hungary and Slovakia, authorities said.
When I tell people that I am a proud Boarisch-Schwob—Bavarian-Swabian—Indigenous person, I am often met with disbelief. I am white. I am European. I come from Bavaria, one of Europe's wealthiest regions. For some people, those facts settle the question before I have explained anything else.
For more than 150 years, fossils of Jurassic fish scattered across Europe's museums were studied and drawn by generations of scientists. However, when a paleontologist decided to shine an ultraviolet light on them, a hidden world lit up.
A new synthesis report, titled "Ecological Characterisation of Peatlands and Coastal Lagoons in Europe," has been published to support the assessment, monitoring and restoration of European wetlands under EU environmental legislation. The report was prepared in response to a policy request submitted by the Directorate-.
In a show of collective strength, President Emmanuel Macron of France hosted European allies at the annual Bastille Day parade in Paris. Yet Europe is still a hostage to America’s foreign policy.
The population of the 27-nation European Union will peak in 2029 before falling in the coming decades, according to a report published Tuesday that spotlights the major challenges the bloc faces from an aging population.
Ukraine and nine other countries have announced a coalition to protect Europe from ballistic missiles, taking advantage of Kyiv's experience of fighting Russia.
The European Union is weighing sweeping new restrictions on children's and teenagers' access to social media, including age limits, an outright ban, and phased access. Social media platforms could also be forced to prove their services are not harmful before young people are allowed to use them. European Commission Pre.
Graham was a rare bridge between President Donald Trump's "America First" foreign policy and the traditional Washington consensus prioritizing alliances with Europe and Israel, one falling out of favor with many in both political parties.
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas — if you ignore the calendar, that is. While much of Europe continues to grapple with stifling summer heat, one Danish city looked ready for Christmas. Hundreds of Santa Clauses, Mrs. Clauses and Christmas elves from around the world filled the streets this week for the annua.
What does it mean to be patriotic? It depends on a country's politics. Pride in one’s country is itself relatively common, according to new results from an international edition of The POLITICO Poll: Majorities of adults across the United States, United Kingdom, Spain, Canada, France and Germany all say they are proud.
Plans specify tolls must not be compulsory, as US officials urge Iran to make public statement that strait is open and that shipping can safely pass Europe is studying proposals that may allow the charging of navigational fees in the strait of Hormuz so long as the tolls are not compulsory and have the support of the U.
The blaze in Andalusia prompted a major containment operation. Heat waves across Europe this summer have raised the risk of such fires, forecasters say.
While President Trump insulted allies and demanded loyalty, the military alliance moved quietly closer to accepting more European responsibility for defense.
A new report by the Copernicus Climate Change Service also found that June temperatures in Western Europe were nearly 5.5 degrees above average.