Authorities in Greece have imposed mandatory work breaks in areas where temperatures are expected to exceed 104 degrees ...

International assistance is rushing to Greece to aid in the battle against devastating wildfires that have been exacerbated by a relentless heat wave engulfing much of southern Europe, with ...

Extreme heat has gripped countries including France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain, with record temperatures, health ...

The severe heat wave in Greece has also been reflected across much of southern Europe and Northern Africa. In Algeria at least 34 people have died as wildfires raged through residential areas ...

The latest heat wave prompted renewed concern over the impact of extreme summer heat. The World Meteorological Organization, a United Nations body, said preliminary global figures showed the month ...

Four people died in Spain, two in France and two in Italy as an early summer heat wave continues to grip much of Europe this ...

Scientists at Imperial and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine used peer-reviewed techniques to calculate that ...

And it has an impact. Extreme heat can disrupt typical brain activity, said Kim Meidenbauer, a neuroscientist at Washington State University. The brain networks that usually allow people to think ...

Greece has experienced two back-to-back heat waves over the past two weeks, bringing temperatures in excess of 100 degrees Fahrenheit, or about 38 degrees Celsius, to many parts of the country.

A recent study conducted by the IS Global Institute in Barcelona analysed the impact of heatwaves in 800 regions in 35 European countries in 2023, finding a total of 47,690 deaths attributable to ...