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Post #4074562
2026-07-23 11:28 UTC
"Extreme heat supercharged by the climate crisis is sucking Europe dry in summer and intensifying the drought hitting the continent, a scientific analysis has found.
Deadly wildfires have raged through Spain and France and farmers have been hit hard, facing some of the driest soils on record.
Rivers are running low across Europe, cutting the generation of clean hydropower and restricting cargo ships."
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jul/23/climate-crisis-heat-sucking-soils-dry-extreme-drought-europe-analysis
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@CelloMomOnCars@mastodon.social 2026-07-23 11:39
"The heat was such that even regions that experienced a relatively wet winter were baked dry just months later, study co-author Dominik Schumacher from ETH Zurich told journalists. "If you have increasingly hot air, it will soak the soils dry. And then it gets even hotter, and the soils get even drier," he said. This rapid drying also primed the land for wildfires, he added." https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20260723-climate-change-has-intensified-europe-risk-of-drought-scientists-say