Spain experienced its deadliest ever June for heat mortality after record-breaking temperatures scorched Europe.
Tourists shield themselves from the sun while visiting the Sagrada Familia cathedral during high temperatures in Barcelona, Spain, on Wednesday, May 27, 2026. The deadly heat wave gripping northwest Europe is set to intensify in Spain and France, lifting power demand for cooling and threatening fresh temperature records.
Europe is experiencing an early, intense heat wave.
Tourists use umbrellas for shade at the Louvre Museum during high temperatures in central Paris, France, on Friday, June 26, 2026. The intense and unusually early heat underscores how climate change is transforming summers in the world’s fastest-warming continent. Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg
The fastest-warming continent is facing tough questions about how to adapt.
A tanned man walks topless during high temperatures in central Paris, France, on Friday, June 26, 2026. The intense and unusually early heat underscores how climate change is transforming summers in the world’s fastest-warming continent. Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg
A judge in a Madrid court ordered Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez’s wife Begoña Gómez to stand trial on charges of influence peddling, corruption while conducting business and embezzlement of public funds.
Representatives at the United Nations talks couldn’t agree on how to pay to combat global warming.
Medics and health professionals march during a "Global Day of Action" protest on the sidelines of the COP26 climate talks in Glasgow, U.K., on Saturday, Nov. 6, 2021. Climate negotiators at the COP26 summit were banking on the worlds most powerful leaders to give them a boost before they embark on two weeks of fraught discussions over who should do what to slow the rise in global temperatures. Photographer: Emily Macinnes/Bloomberg
Negotiators in Bonn got stuck on a familiar problem: how to find money to help developing nations tackle global warming.
Munduruku Alessandra Koran, member of the Ipereg Ayu movement, speaks with journalists during a protest at the entrance of the COP30 UN Climate Change Conference in Belem, Brazil.
The value of uninsured natural-catastrophe losses rose more than 7% globally last year to $424 billion, with North America the most exposed region, according to a fresh analysis.
Damage following Hurricane Melissa, in Jamaica in 2025.
One year in the next four will likely be the hottest ever recorded, the agency said.
Workers cool themselves in water fountains during high temperatures in the La Defense business district of Paris, France, on Tuesday, May 26, 2026. The first major heat wave of the season broke temperature records across northwest Europe, triggered water shortages in the UK and has been linked to several deaths in France. Photographer: Benjamin Girette/Bloomberg
When Tehran oil infrastructure caught fire in March following Israeli strikes, the blaze produced toxic fumes detectable across an area the size of Italy, according to fresh research.
A smoke cloud from a fire following an overnight airstrike on the Shahran oil refinery in northwestern Tehran on March 8.
An oil skimming operation works in a heavy oil slick near Latouche Island near the southwest end Prince William Sound on April 1, 1989, a week after the beginning of an oil disaster which occurred when the tanker Exxon Valdez ran aground March 24, 1989 and spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Prince William Sound off Alaska. Photographer: Chris Wilkins/AFP/Getty Images
Spain’s growing reliance on renewable energy has helped keep power prices stable even as the war in the Middle East drives up the cost of oil and gas, said Sara Aagesen, the country’s minister for environmental transition.
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