Climate crisis: recent European droughts 'worst in 2,000 years'

Recent Summer Droughts in Europe Are Far More Severe Than Anything in the Past 2,100 Years

European summer droughts since 2015 unprecedented in past two millennia, according to a new study. An international team, led by the University of Cambridge, studied...The post Recent Summer Droughts in Europe Are Far More Severe Than Anything in the Past 2,100 Years appeared first on SciTechDaily.

Europe's droughts since 2015 'worst in 2,000 years'

Recent summer droughts in Europe were the most severe the region has seen in 2,110 years as climate change has stoked punishing heat waves, according to new research Monday that raises the alarm for ecosystems and agriculture.

'Climate Change Is Here': Europe's Recent Droughts 'Unprecedented' in Millennia, Study Finds

Andrea Germanos, staff writer"Our results show that what we have experienced over the past five summers is extraordinary for central Europe, in terms of how dry it has been consecutively."

Europe's recent heat waves are the worst in 2,000 years: study

A study of tree rings dating back to the Roman empire concludes Europe's weather since 2014 has been extraordinary.

Recent droughts and heatwaves in Europe worst in 2,000 years, study claims

Heatwaves and droughts that have plagued Europe in the last seven years constitute the most extreme weather-related events in the region for over 2,000 years, a research posits. To ascertain this, the researchers analysed tree rings dating back to Roman rings, but attributing the extreme changes to global warming. According to the study, the heatwaves have had a series of ill-effects in the region - ranging from thousands of early deaths, destru…

Climate crisis means European droughts now worse than any over past 2,000 years, study shows

Records extracted from living and dead oak trees reveal worsening impact of human-caused global heating