Greek Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis said his country was one of those on the front line against climate change, with no easy solution to halt its effects. The heat, with temperatures topping 40 Celsius (104 Fahrenheit), is well in excess of what usually attracts tourists who flock to southern European beaches.

Without human-induced climate change, the events this month would have been 'extremely rare', according to a study by World Weather Attribution, a global team of scientists that examines the role played by climate change in extreme weather. Further north, the weather broke and an intense overnight storm tore off roofs and brought down trees in cities including Milan, killing two women in that part of the country.Įxtreme weather throughout July has caused havoc across the planet, with record temperatures in China, the United States and southern Europe sparking forest fires, water shortages and a rise in heat-related hospital admissions. Greece has been particularly hard hit by fires, with the authorities evacuating more than 20,000 people in recent days from homes and resorts in the south of the holiday island of Rhodes.Īnother blaze caused the temporary closure of Palermo airport on the southern Italian island of Sicily on Tuesday. There was no immediate word on the fate of the two airmen on board. The plane, which had been dropping water, came down on a hillside close to the town of Karystos on the Greek island of Evia, east of Athens. RHODES/ALGIERS, July 25 (Reuters) - A plane fighting wildfires in Greece crashed on Tuesday as large areas of the Mediterranean sweltered under an intense summer heatwave, with Algeria battling to control an inferno that has killed at least 34 people.

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