Wildfires across Europe forces thousands to flee homes amid ‘powder keg’ dry conditions – The Irish Times
Wildfires raging across southern Europe have forced thousands to flee their homes and prompted officials to ban spectators…
Irish families evacuated from campsites in southern France as heatwave takes hold – The Irish Times
Thousands of people have been forced to flee their homes on France’s southern border with Italy as wildfires…
Ireland to see warm weather next week with temperatures up to 25 degrees – The Irish Times
Ireland can expect to see plenty of warm and dry weather next week with just the occasional drizzle…
Ireland’s 1887 temperature record stands after fresh climate analysis – The Irish Times
Sir, – Brian Ahern (Letters, July 1st) asks how Ireland’s record temperature of 33.3 degrees could have been…
Dangerously high temperatures forecast to return to western Europe next week – The Irish Times
Temperatures are forecast to soar across much of western Europe early next week, just days after a record-breaking…
France records 1,000 excess deaths this week due to ‘exceptional’ heatwave – The Irish Times
France recorded about 1,000 excess deaths this week because of an “exceptional” heat wave that’s continuing to scorch…
Scientists mull controversial plan to steer hurricanes
Technology is on the cusp of allowing humans to disrupt or steer natural disasters, like hurricanes, according to a new study, which appeared in the…
Ireland’s weather cools as heatwave set to shift across Europe – The Irish Times
Germans braced for sweltering conditions on Saturday as a heatwave linked to dozens of deaths in western Europe…
If water bottle rules at gigs can be relaxed in extreme heat, are they ever necessary? – The Irish Times
If you’ve never worked behind a bar, there’s a visceral thrill to be had from pulling the wooden…
Heatwave declared official on Friday, but temperatures to dip over weekend – The Irish Times
What Met Éireann classified yesterday as an official heatwave is coming to an end with temperatures set to…
How the current heatwave compares to the scorching summers of 1976 and 1995 – The Irish Times
The summer of 2026 is already shaping up to be one of the warmest on record and we…
‘Savage’ European heatwave due to climate change, says UN expert – The Irish Times
United Nations (UN) climate change executive secretary Simon Stiell has said the heatwave across Europe this week was…