Beach-goers watch as wildfire burns in Greece's Halkidiki
:: Vourvourou, Greece
:: July 2, 2025
After days of an intense early heatwave in Europe, the EU's Copernicus says Europe is the world's fastest-warming continent, heating up at twice the global average, making extreme heatwaves occur earlier in the year, and persist into later months.
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