In late May, Iceland and Greenland saw record-breaking heat.
Climate change drives record-breaking heat in Iceland and Greenland challenging cold adapted ecosystems and societies
Europe
When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather In 2024
When Risks Become Reality: Extreme Weather in 2024 is our annual report, published this year for the first time.
Extreme downpours increasing in southeastern Spain as fossil fuel emissions heat the climate
From October 29-30, 2024, eastern Spain was hit by exceptionally heavy rainfall.
10 years of rapidly disentangling drivers of extreme weather disasters
In the summer of 2003, a devastating heatwave killed more than 70,000 people across Europe.
Climate change and high exposure increased costs and disruption to lives and livelihoods from flooding associated with exceptionally heavy rainfall in Central Europe
In mid September 2024 a very large region in Central Europe, including Poland, Czechia, Austria, Romania, Hungary, Germany and Slovakia experienced very heavy rainfall, breaking local and national rainfall records over the period of four days.