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Human-Caused Warming Tripled the Death Toll of European Heat Waves This Summer, New Report Shows

Public health researchers struggle to track the accelerating pace of global warming impacts.

By Bob Berwyn

Madrid’s Emergency Medical Service workers transfer a prisoner from Valdemoro prison to Infanta Elena Hospital after he suffered heat stroke amid a heat wave in Spain. Credit: Pierre-Philippe Marcou/AFP via Getty Images
Local residents work to prevent a wildfire from reaching nearby houses on Aug. 19 in Vilela Seca, Portugal. Credit: Pedro Pascual Garcia/Anadolu via Getty Images

Fossil-Fueled Climate Heating Set the Stage for Devastating Fires in Spain and Portugal This Summer

By Bob Berwyn

Wind power makes up 18-20 percent of Sweden's electricity, but many projects are now stopped by municipal or military vetoes, and decreased government subsidies. Credit: Marcus Haraldsson

Sweden, an Early Climate Leader, Is Retreating From Its Environmental Commitments, Part of an EU Trend

By Marcus Haraldsson

People hold umbrellas to protect themselves from the sun during a heatwave in Paris on June 30. Credit: Ludovic Marin/AFP via Getty Images

Human-Caused Global Warming Spiked the Death Toll of Europe’s Early Summer Heatwave

By Bob Berwyn

Carola Rackete looks into the Majdanpek copper mine in East Serbia. The mine, run by the Chinese company Zijin, has been linked to large scale pollution, river alteration and deficient environmental impact studies. Credit: Courtesy of Carola Rackete

The European Politician Bringing Nature Into the Halls of Power

By Katie Surma

Friedrich Merz, chancellor candidate of Germany’s Christian Democratic Union, reacts after his speech during an election campaign stop on Feb. 20 in Berlin. Credit: Maja Hitij/Getty Images

Conservatives Win in Germany, But New Chancellor Will Be Limited in Ability to Make Big Changes to Climate and Energy Policy

By Dan Gearino

Internally displaced Somali women receive food-aid rations at a distribution center in Mogadishu, Somalia on July 26, 2011. The 2011 drought in Somalia killed at least 258,000 people, making it the deadliest single climate event in the official global record. Credit: Abdurashid Abdulle/AFP via Getty Images

New Report Shows How Human-Caused Warming Intensified the 10 Deadliest Climate Disasters Since 2004

By Bob Berwyn

A worker sweeps around a furnace at a coke plant in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine on April 11. Credit: Ukrinform/NurPhoto via Getty Images

Mining ‘Critical Minerals’ in Eastern Europe and Central Asia Rife With Rights Abuses

By Katie Surma

Flamingos fly over the Nartë lagoon, near the city of Vlorë, Albania. Credit: Gent Shkullaku/AFP via Getty Images

Jared Kushner Has Big Plans for Delta of Europe’s Last Wild River

By Fred Pearce, Yale Environment 360

An American white ibis lands on marshy wetlands of the South Padre Island Birding Center in Texas. Credit: Jon G. Fuller/VW Pics/ Universal Images Group via Getty Images

The Transatlantic Battle to Stop Methane Gas Exports From South Texas

By Aaron Cantú, Capital & Main

National Police officers remove climate activists from trees in Spain's Madrid Río Park. The environmental group Extinction Rebellion was protesting against tree felling that began in the park on Dec. 11, 2023. Credit: Marcos del Mazo/LightRocket via Getty Images

United Nations Official Says State Repression of Environmental Defenders Threatens Democracy and Human Rights

By Keerti Gopal, Bob Berwyn

The Wamme river is seen at a low level during the European heatwave on Aug 10, 2022 in Rochefort, Belgium. Credit: Thierry Monasse/Getty Images

Study Pinpoints Links Between Melting Arctic Ice and Summertime Extreme Weather in Europe

By Bob Berwyn

Environmental activists from the Irish Wildlife Trust and Extinction Rebellion called on the Irish Government to introduce legislation in the form of a Biodiversity Act at a protest outside the National Biodiversity Conference in Dublin Castle on June 8, 2022. Credit: Niall Carson/PA Images via Getty Images

Ireland Could Become the Next Nation to Recognize the Rights of Nature and a Human Right to a Clean Environment

By Katie Surma

The statue of the author Hans Christian Anderson at City Hall Square in Copenhagen, photographed in August. The city is known for being bike-friendly and this street, Hans Christian Anderson Boulevard, sometimes feels like highway for bicycles. Credit: Dan Gearino/Inside Climate News

Denmark, a Global Climate Policy Leader, Strains to Live Up to High Ambitions

By Dan Gearino

A street sweeper man cools off with water at a fountain in Ronda, Spain on July 21, 2022. Credit: Jorge Guerrero/AFP via Getty Images

Intensifying Cycle of Extreme Heat And Drought Grips Europe

By Bob Berwyn

Celebrating Victories in Europe and South America, the Rights of Nature Movement Plots Strategy in a Time of ‘Crises’

By Katie Surma

John Allaire checks a trap for fish or crabs on his coastal property in Cameron Parish, Louisiana, south of Lake Charles. Credit: James Bruggers

With Biden in Europe Promising to Expedite U.S. LNG Exports, Environmentalists on the Gulf Coast Say, Not So Fast

By James Bruggers

Inside Clean Energy: Here’s a Cool New EV, but You Can’t Have It

By Dan Gearino

Pipe systems and shut-off devices are seen at the gas receiving station of the Nord Stream 2 Baltic Sea pipeline. Credit: Stefan Sauer/picture alliance via Getty Images

How Climate and the Nord Stream 2 Pipeline Undergirds the Ukraine-Russia Standoff

By Marianne Lavelle

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