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EUROPE suffered unprecedented wildfires and heatwaves in 2025, impacts that are expected to worsen on the world’s fastest-warming continent. Last year was the hottest year on record in the UK, Iceland and Norway and one of the three hottest years in Europe as a whole, according to an annual report by the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF). More than 95 per cent of the continent experienced above-average annual temperatures. Scandinavia, Finland and north-western Russia saw their worst-ever heatwave, with temperatures that reached 30°C (86°F) even in the Arctic circle. Climate warming set the stage for record wildfires in Portugal and Spain in August, making the extremely hot, dry, windy conditions there at least 40 times more likely. …
摘自《新科学家》(New Scientist)第270卷 第3594期 · 2026年5月9日,Alec Luhn。仅引用开头一小段供了解文章,版权归原刊所有,全文请阅读原刊。