European State of the Climate 2025: Record Heatwaves From the Mediterranean to the Arctic, While Glaciers Shrink and Snow Cover Declines
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Climate change in Europe 2025 has confirmed the worst of the scenarios foreseen by science. With more than 95% of the continent recording temperatures above average, Europe is positioned as the fastest-heating region on the planet. Extreme events are no longer anomalies, but a new climate normality. Throughout the year, devastating fires, record heat waves and an accelerated loss of ice have shown a structural change in the European climate. Inc…
European State of the Climate 2025: record heatwaves from the Mediterranean to the Arctic, while glaciers shrink and snow cover declines
ECMWF and WMO report highlights impacts of climate change on people and biodiversity across the fastest-warming continent. Rapid warming in Europe is reducing snow and ice cover, while dangerously high air temperatures, drought, heatwaves and record ocean temperatures are affecting regions from the Arctic to the Mediterranean.
EUROPE NAMED ‘FASTEST-WARMING CONTINENT’ IN LATEST CLIMATE CHANGE REPORT
Sat 02 May 2026: From heatwaves to wildfires and shrinking ice cover, Europe is facing a ‘severe’ impact from climate change, UN body says. Nearly all of Europe experienced above-average annual temperatures in 2025, a year that included record-high marine temperatures and wildfires from the Arctic to the Mediterranean, according to the World Meteorological Organization. The United […]
Nearly all (between 95 and 100 %) of the European continent experienced temperatures above average in 2025, according to the annual report on the state of the climate published on Wednesday 29 April by the European Copernicus programme 11. Europe is the fastest warming continent in the world, excluding the Arctic: last year it experienced temperature anomalies which were on average 0.9°C higher than the 1991-2020 reference period. Temperatures h…
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