Storms, floods, drought, fires and heat waves. All around Europe and the Mediterranean Sea, the summer of 2022 has been marked by extreme weather events.

A powerful heat wave has been gripping large parts of southern Europe and North Africa, pushing air temperatures beyond ...

Wildfires hit Portugal, Spain, Greece, Algeria, Croatia, Italy Firefighting plane crashes in Greece Tunisia suffers heatwave, power cuts hit Malta Mediterranean region 'climate change hot-spot ...

Wildfires are raging in several areas of southern Europe - including mainland Greece The most severe fire in the country currently is in the Dervenochoria region - smoke billowing from the area ...

Searing heat and drought are affecting large swathes of southern Europe and North Africa. Click on the map for situation reports from the worst-hit countries: France. Water-rationing is in place ...

ATHENS, Greece – Struck by near-record temperatures and wildfires during this week’s heatwave, the Mediterranean region is ranked as a climate-change “hot spot” by scientists.

A map of the Mediterranean region shows land surface temperatures on the morning of July 17, when air temps soared into the triple digits. Photo Credit: The European Space Agency/Copernicus Sentinel-3 ...

In mid-May 2025, 53% of land in Europe and the Mediterranean basin experienced drought, the highest level for this period since 2012 and over 20 percentage points above the 2012–2024 average.