{"id":738636,"date":"2026-08-15T08:14:18","date_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:14:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738636\/"},"modified":"2026-08-15T08:14:18","modified_gmt":"2026-08-15T08:14:18","slug":"europes-scorched-landscapes-seen-from-space-after-summer-heatwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/738636\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe&#8217;s scorched landscapes seen from space after summer heatwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Prof Andrew Challinor, from the University of Leeds, said the images were &#8220;consistent with widespread water stress&#8221;, which &#8220;does not bode well&#8221; given much of Europe&#8217;s land is covered by crops meaning it could hit the agriculture industry and food production.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the worst-affected areas, soil moisture is lower than on about 98% of comparable dates in the historical record, according to Prof Luis Samaniego, from the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">And, he warns, even if rain returns, some of the agricultural damage may already have been done.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Graphics by Jess Carr and Tom Shiel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Prof Andrew Challinor, from the University of Leeds, said the images were &#8220;consistent with widespread water stress&#8221;, which&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":738637,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[49,50,51,47,52,48],"class_list":["post-738636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738636","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=738636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/738636\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/738637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=738636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=738636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=738636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}