South, southeast face Europe’s most adverse climate change impact: agency – Reuters
Article Synopsis – Climate change is causing more frequent and severe flooding, droughts, storms and heatwaves throughout Europe as global temperature rise hits new records, sea levels rise and sea ice melts in the Arctic. From 1980 to 2013, climate-related extreme events accounted for nearly 400 billion euros ($430 billion) of economic losses and were responsible for 85,000 deaths in European Environment Agency (EEA) member countries. The southern and southeastern regions of Europe are expected to face the continent’s most adverse effects. To read the actual article click here.