European drought dries up rivers, kills fish, shrivels crops, and reduces electricity generation

2022, Coal, Drought, Energy, Europe, Extreme Weather, France, Germany, Impacts, Natural Gas, Nuclear Energy, Spain, UKLeave a comment

ABC News: LUX, France — Once, a river ran through it. Now, white dust and thousands of dead fish cover the wide trench that winds amid rows of trees in France’s Burgundy region in what was the Tille River in the village of Lux. From dry and cracked reservoirs in Spain to falling water levels on…

Heatwave: Record breaking temperatures in the U.S. and Europe

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Today The Guardian filed, ‘US temperatures hit record levels as south-west bakes in heatwave‘, and cites 114F in Phoenix, 109F in Las Vegas, Denver hit 100F (37,7C), in California inland areas reached triple digits. A dangerous heat swept across the American south-west over the weekend as potentially deadly heat set temperatures soaring to record levels…