France is tackling a 'monster' wildfire, the Rhine in Germany threatens to fall so low it could become difficult to transport goods, while the UK suffers more extreme heat. Europe is facing drought and experts say it's driven by climate change.
Temperatures have once again approached 100 degrees Fahrenheit in the United Kingdom and France this week. A drought wasin several parts of England, leaving millions facing restrictions on the use of water — much of its famously “green and pleasant” countryside has already gone brown.
Already some 10,000 people have been evacuated from areas near the forest fires still raging in the Gironde region in western France. More than 26 square miles of pine forest have burned since Tuesday, with at least 16 houses destroyed amid the worst French drought in recorded history. Many large ships could struggle to safely pass the river at that spot carrying anything like their usual load, leaving German power stations short of coal and other goods struggling for transport.
A river in Lux, in eastern France near the city of Dijon, normally sees 2,100 gallons flow along it every second but has run dry. Fish cannot survive. Fish deaths in the Oder River have been worrying people in Brandenburg on the German border with Poland for days.While Spain and Portugal are used to long periods of hot, dry weather, farmers there are suffering: In Andalucia, a large region of southern Spain, avocado farmers have sacrificed hundreds of trees to save others from wilting.
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