Europe is bracing itself for its hottest temperature on Italy’s islands of Sicily and Sardinia. Read more at straitstimes.com.
ROME – More temperature records are expected to tumble on Tuesday as Europe awaited the peak of a punishing heatwave and wildfires scorched swathes of the Northern Hemisphere, forcing the evacuation of 1,200 children close to a Greek seaside resort.
Near Athens, emergency services were battling wildfires in Kouvaras and the resorts of Lagonissi, Anavyssos and Saronida. “This underlines the increasing urgency of cutting greenhouse gas emissions as quickly and as deeply as possible.”In Europe, Italians were warned to prepare for “the most intense heatwave of the summer and also one of the most intense of all time” as temperatures hit a near-record 39 deg C in Rome on Monday.
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