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Athens reaches 25.3°C on 24 October, with storms forecast for Sunday, 25 October
Shoppers crowded central Athens on Saturday, 24 October, as temperatures climbed to 25.3 degrees Celsius. The National Observatory of Athens forecasts rain and storms for Sunday, 25 October, with regional temperature ranges from 9 to 24 degrees.
UN report: 2025 emissions at record levels, world on track for 2.6°C by 2100
The UN Environment Programme says the 1.5°C limit can no longer be held without overshoot, and that the United States accounted for 70% of the 2025 increase from countries that raised emissions.
Super El Niño fuels storms in Chile and threatens copper and crops
The World Meteorological Organization says the phenomenon could reach an unprecedented intensity and peak at the end of 2026. Chile's copper output and farms face new risks from its stormy spring.
Singapore threatens legal action against 10 firms over Indonesian haze fires
Singapore has threatened legal action against 10 businesses it says are linked to Indonesian fires, as student protests grow in Indonesia and nearly 2 million hectares have burned this year.
96% of shallow coral reefs rated critically endangered, IUCN warns of collapse by 2075
The IUCN says heat stress from climate change gives nearly all shallow coral reefs an extremely high risk of collapse by 2075. The first global assessment covers 127 reef regions in more than 80 countries and territories.
Storms Luise and Manja to bring gusts up to 100 km/h to northern and western Germany
The German Weather Service expects a storm low on Friday, 23 October, with gusts up to 100 km/h in the west, followed by Storm Manja on Sunday, 25 October, and a North Sea wind peak overnight to Monday, 26 October.
EU Parliament negotiators agree softer 2035 car CO2 target, easing combustion-engine ban
Negotiators from the EPP, S&D and Renew groups agreed overnight to cut new-car fleet CO2 by 95% by 2035 against 2021, or 87.5% with EU-made low-carbon steel. The compromise still needs committee and plenary votes before it becomes Parliament's position.
Greece faces storms and flood risk from Sunday, with Monday and Tuesday the worst
Forecasters expect a storm system to reach Greece from the west on Sunday, 25 October, with rain spreading to Attica and the islands before the Monday and Tuesday peak.
Dana Adam keeps warnings for five provinces as storms hit eastern Spain
AEMET forecast warnings for five provinces on Tuesday, 20 October, after heavy rain on the Mediterranean coast, with storm alerts for Barcelona and Girona.
Indonesian forest fires push Southeast Asia haze to highest ASEAN alert level
On Thursday, 15 October, four men died fighting forest fires in East Java, as smoke from Indonesia's blazes pushed the region to the highest level on the ASEAN haze alert scale.
Indonesia tests dry ice to clear wildfire haze as smoke spreads to Singapore and Malaysia
A dry ice trial over South Sumatra is set for Thursday, 15 October, as El Niño-fuelled fires keep smoke hanging over Indonesia, Singapore and Malaysia.
Sophia solar park shrinks by a third, but ZERO and other groups still oppose it
Lightsource BP has cut the installed capacity of the Sophia solar park by 34%, to 573 MWp, as public consultation closed on Wednesday, 21 October. Environmental groups including ZERO say the reformulated plan still falls short.
Mont Blanc measured at 4,807.47 metres, up 1.88 metres on 2023 but down on 2025
Surveyors from the Haute-Savoie chamber put the summit at 4,807.47 metres after a measurement on 17 September. The height is 1.88 metres above the 2023 reading, but the experts say single readings reveal little about climate change.
UAE closes Umm Al Quwain beaches as oil spill from tanker reaches its coast
The UAE has closed all beaches and coastal areas in Umm Al Quwain after a tanker leak. Satellite imagery shows the slick had spread more than 35 km from the tanker by 21 October and now extends toward island habitats.
Hurricane Trudy reaches Category 3 off Mexico's Pacific coast; earlier storms left at least six dead
Trudy is about 420 km (260 miles) southwest of Acapulco and is forecast to draw near Mexico's southwestern coast on Saturday, 17 October, after earlier floods killed at least six people.
Rain and storms return to Italy on Sunday, 18 October, hitting the northwest first
Forecasters expect rain and storms to hit northwest Italy on Sunday, 18 October, before showers spread across most of the country from Tuesday, 20 October. Temperatures are set to drop back toward seasonal averages as the disturbance arrives.
Thames Water hosepipe ban to run through autumn after severe drought declared in southern England
Thames Water's ban covers more than 10 million customers, and on Thursday, 15 October the Environment Agency declared severe drought in parts of six southern counties. Ministers and local leaders are now disputing who is responsible for the water shortfall.
Google felled about 400,000 trees in Finland for AI data centres before impact checks
Work at two northern Finnish sites has been halted after the licensing authority found the clearing began before environmental impact assessments were finished. Conservationists estimate about 400,000 trees were felled.
Cold front brings rain and cooler weather to Switzerland and western Germany
A cold front reaches Switzerland on Saturday, 17 October, bringing rain to the northwest, while up to 100 litres per square metre could fall around the Simplon on Sunday, 18 October.
Heat killed over 50,000 people in European cities in summer 2026, study finds
Two peer-reviewed articles in Nature Health estimate that heat killed more than 50,000 people in 854 urban areas across 30 countries in summer 2026, with about two-thirds of the deaths attributed to climate change.
Greece braces for storms and 9 Beaufort winds on 13 and 14 October
The EMY has issued an emergency bulletin for storms, heavy rain and strong winds on Tuesday, 13 October, and Wednesday, 14 October. Civil Protection has urged citizens to take precautions as a sharp temperature drop follows.
AEMET forecasts stable weather across Spain on Tuesday, 13 October, with highs up to 34 degrees
An anticyclone will bring mostly clear skies to most of mainland Spain on Tuesday, 13 October, according to AEMET. Cloud and weak, occasional rain are forecast for the Cantabrian region, the Balearic Islands and parts of the eastern coast.
Guterres warns world is off track on biodiversity targets ahead of COP17
Only 26% of land and 12% of sea would be protected if current pledges are met, UN Secretary-General António Guterres said at a press conference in Armenia, four days before COP17 opens in Yerevan.
Global deforestation fell 15% in 2025 to 7 million hectares, but the Congo Basin is worsening
Global forest loss fell 15% in 2025 to 7 million hectares, according to the Forest Declaration Assessment published on Wednesday, 14 October 2026. The Congo Basin, however, lost 2.4 million hectares, nearly matching tropical Latin America for the first time.
House martin named Bird of the Year 2027 in online vote as numbers fall
More than 148,000 people voted, giving the house martin 45.2 percent of the ballots, NABU and the Bavarian LBV announced. The swallow winters in Africa and is listed as endangered in Germany.
Climate system destabilizing faster, seven of 16 vital signs at record extremes, report says
Researchers led from Oregon State University say the climate system is becoming unstable quickly. The seventh annual report, published on 14 October 2026 in BioScience, puts warming at 0.36 degrees Celsius per decade since 2010.
Cold, damp week ahead in Poland, with frost in the east and a dry spell into the weekend
Forecasts point to cloudy, damp weather and cold nights, with frost possible east of the Vistula. Drought conditions are expected to persist, with most of the country getting only a few millimetres of rain until Sunday, 18 October.
Storm that killed one in Rhodes eases, new rain expected from 16 October
A storm that killed one person in Rhodes on 14 October has eased, but Greek forecasters expect a fresh spell of rain and possible storms from Friday, 16 October.
Western Poland to reach 18-19°C on 16 October before colder air returns at the weekend
The forecast puts 15 October highs between 9-10°C in the east and 15°C in the west, with fog possible on the mornings of 15 and 16 October and visibility dropping to 200 metres.
One in six Portuguese buyers admits binning small cheap electronics in household waste
On Wednesday, 14 October, the Electrão association published figures from a 12-country study of cheap, short-lived electronics, timed for International Waste Electrical Day. In Portugal, 17.8% of buyers said they had put such devices in household waste or the wrong containers.