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Nature, Published online: 14 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02442-3 A researcher in Latin America seeks advice on the best way to present themselves when applying for faculty positions in Europe and North America.
Nature, Published online: 13 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03236-3 Burials in the United Kingdom’s Peak District, one of Europe’s largest lead-production regions in centuries past, hint at social inequality.
Shocked by the U.S. agreement with Russia, which Ukraine has called “a gift” to President Putin, officials in Europe have coalesced around a cautious diplomatic message.
The ex-soldier has marched 36,000 miles since he left Hull in 1998. He’s crossed the Americas, Asia and Europe, fallen in love, been held at gunpoint and been deported, in between nearly drowning, nearly dying of thirst and nearly being eaten. But that’s just the start of it … ‘It’s a big moment,” says Karl Bushby, who.
Nature, Published online: 12 October 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-03181-1 Earnings come in a combination of scholarships and salaries and vary widely between countries, an analysis by international federation Eurodoc reveals.
The first definitive evidence of when post-Roman lead production began in one of Europe's largest medieval lead-producing regions, the Derbyshire Peak District in central England, has been uncovered by archaeologists after centuries of mining had erased much of the archaeological evidence. The work has been published i.
European nations that condemn the Taliban government for its human rights record are seeking its help to deport refugees back to Afghanistan.
The European Union is weighing tougher trade measures as negotiators prepare to meet Chinese officials in Beijing, with surging exports from China pressuring key industries in Europe.
The Anker Nano 100W travel adapter with its folding prongs. | Image: Anker For frequent travelers who like to pack light, the Anker Nano 100W universal travel adapter packs multiple USB ports and is equipped with the ability to adapt to outlets in over 200 countries and regions with its US, UK and EU plugs. During Octo.
The U.S. war in Iran unleashed small-scale attacks by local criminals or disenfranchised young men hired anonymously to target Jewish and American sites in Europe and North America, experts say.
Working from before dawn until midnight, farmers Nikoletta Pajsan Nagy and Laszlo Pajsan fought Europe's driest summer ever to save their red pepper harvest in Hungary.
Switzerland's glaciers are disappearing at a record pace. More than 5% of their ice has vanished this year alone — threatening water supplies, ecosystems and communities across Europe. (Image credit: Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences).
The European Union floated the idea of making Canada its first associate member, with Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney embracing the plan. Plus, a photographer spotted President Trump holding a placard that appeared to say "Kennedy Center Demolished." CBS News' Weijia Jiang has more.
Populations of the Western honeybee (Apis mellifera) are under immense pressure in the wild in Europe. New research published in Conservation Science and Practice from the University of Hohenheim in Stuttgart and Agroscope in Zürich shows that there are frequent occurrences of honeybees in the wild in Europe. However,.
The results of this week’s exceptionally close election dealt a blow to far-right nationalists, who have gained ground elsewhere.
Asian nations began pilot voyages over a decade ago to find routes to Europe and the Middle East that were faster and less vulnerable to chokepoints. The ongoing war has added impetus to those efforts. (Image credit: Jung Yeon-Je).
Canada's Prime Minister Mark Carney speaks to the European Parliament, following the European Union's invitation to Canada to become an "associate member" of the bloc.
The invitation by the E.U. for Canada to become an “associate member” is a sign of Mr. Trump’s brand of diplomacy, which often involves threatening America’s closest friends.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday proposed making Canada the European Union's first associate member, a striking overture as U.S. President Donald Trump's tariffs drive Ottawa closer to Europe. (Image credit: Pascal Bastien).
Canada and the European Union have been confronting an increasingly challenging relationship with the United States under President Trump.
The attack on Ukraine’s rail network, which connects the country to the West, was a jab at Europe, officials said.
Once shunned over its extremist roots, the Sweden Democrats could enter government for the first time as voters weigh immigration, crime and Sweden's political transformation.
UK gardens took a battering this summer as a heat dome settled over western Europe, and much of the green and pleasant land turned a dusty beige.
Across southern Europe, increasingly extreme heat, wildfire and intense rainfall are forcing planners to consider how one event can alter the risk of the next. Portugal's exceptionally wet winter and another summer of wildfire risk are an example of this. As a professor of architecture and climate change adaptation who.
Children across Europe have returned to school after a summer of extreme heat. As the climate warms, one question is becoming harder to ignore: How can students learn when classrooms become dangerously hot?
After voting against talks to join the European Union, Iceland is reacting forcefully to a slight against its sovereignty.
The war could yet drag on for years as Russia reconstitutes its forces and its defense industry, said U.S. Undersecretary of Defense Elbridge Colby.
The year is 2060. London shudders through months of Nordic winter freezes. Across northern Europe, oak and beech forests wither under severe frost and drought, while cereal yields collapse from temperatures plunging as low as 27 degrees Fahrenheit below today's averages. In U.S. coastal cities such as Miami and Charles.
Germany's far-right AfD party won a major parliamentary election victory in the eastern state of Saxony-Anhalt. The win marks a growing divide in German politics. The AfD party is anti-immigration and has been labelled as xenophobic and extremist by German intelligence. Liz Landers discussed the outcome with Liana Fix,.
Nature, Published online: 04 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02741-9 Comparison using signals sent over fibre-optic cable tests agreement between seven devices spread across Europe.
The European Union is promising Greenland a stronger partnership and hundreds of millions of euros in investment, wanting to reassure Greenland after U.S. President Donald Trump's threats to take control of the island.
Meteorologist James Stagg gave what many regard as the most important weather forecast in history in June 1944. The fate of more than 150,000 Allied troops preparing to invade the Normandy beaches on D-Day and the future of the war in Europe depended on Stagg and his forecasting teams. Get the forecast wrong and an alr.
BELGRADE, Serbia — The European Union’s Enlargement Commissioner Marta Kos on Friday canceled an upcoming visit to candidate nation Serbia over what she described as the “glorification” of former Bosnian Serb army commander Ratko Mladić following his death.
A record-breaking summer that saw more than 1,000 wildfires has torched some 540,000 hectares (1.3 million acres) of land across the European Union since mid-June, according to official data—an area more than twice the size of Luxembourg.
The doors to Europe's largest consumer tech show officially opened to the public today following a week of news coming out of IFA 2026 in Berlin, Germany. If you're struggling to keep up with what has been announced, here are some of the best new gadgets and upgrades from the show - including a smartphone that attempts.
Europe's biggest tech trade show, IFA , has taken over Berlin this week - and we've been on the ground all week checking it out in person. We figure you have questions, so we're hosting an AMA that's exclusive to Verge subscribers at 12PM ET today. That's when we'll start dropping answers, but you can ask your burning.
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German police arrested two people suspected of attacking a weapons manufacturer in Munich. The incident comes after Germany officially blamed the Russian government for an attack involving drones that came close to downing an aircraft as it landed. Nick Schifrin discussed the Russian attacks against Europe with David C.
Amid record-breaking temperatures on the continent, households and businesses in Italy are increasingly installing cooling units.
Daphne Caruana Galizia's killing shocked Europe, led to protests that toppled a prime minister and exposed a culture of impunity in the European Union's smallest state.
Nearly half of people living in Europe on an average income can only afford to buy the equivalent of a one-bedroom apartment or studio apartment, while 39% of Europeans cannot afford to rent a property this size.
Some of Europe's most well-known historic manuscripts, including the York Gospels, have proven to be biological time capsules for uncovering the 3,500-year history of the sheeppox virus (SPPV).
Common global narratives about political polarization are skewed because of an overreliance on literature about the U.S., leaving governments unprepared to tackle the problem at home. In new research led by King's College London and published in Nature Communications, experts across the U.K., Europe, Asia, Australia an.
Windstorms are among the most important natural disturbances in Northern Europe, where they cause extensive tree mortality, timber losses and long-lasting changes in forest structure. Large-scale windstorm damage has increased across Central and Northern European forests in recent decades, while in boreal regions such.
Nature, Published online: 01 September 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02736-6 Europe should adapt, not copy, China’s practical PhD.
As Xi Jinping gathered with the leaders of Russia and Iran, Europe challenged the Trump administration at the G20, offering a split-screen view of a changing world.
For many years, the European Union has pursued a policy aimed at the replacement, reduction and refinement of animal testing (the 3Rs principle). To put the ethical principle of the 3Rs into practice, the European Commission has published a roadmap for the gradual phaseout of animal testing in the safety assessment of.
Moscow has been widely accused by Western officials of running a campaign of sabotage and disruption across Europe with the aim of undermining support for Ukraine and destabilizing European nations.
As blazes surge across Europe, the country is making a trade-off to protect its heritage by fireproofing sites at the risk of spoiling the surrounding landscape.
The meeting underscored Washington's willingness to reopen diplomatic talks with Moscow, as Europe intends to isolate the nation while the war continues.
Europe's water and climate resilience is under increasing pressure, with degraded soils, drained catchments and the loss of wetlands intensifying droughts and contributing to more destructive floods. In response, the EU-funded projects SpongeBoost, SpongeWorks and SpongeScapes have published a joint policy brief, "Achi.
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.