In brief | 12 August ‘25

Euractiv: Europe’s wind farm army

Wind turbines are to be NATO’s eyes and ears in the Baltic Sea.

The Guardian: Weather tracker: Europe braces for another heatwave with highs of 44C

Parts of Spain and Portugal likely to bear brunt of heat, while drought conditions sweep North America.

BBC: Jellyfish swarm forces French nuclear plant to shut

A French nuclear plant temporarily shut down on Monday due to a "massive and unpredictable presence of jellyfish" in its filters, its operator said.

PIK: Tropical bird populations reduced by a third since 1980, compared to a world without climate change

According to the study, tropical birds are exposed to ten times the extreme heat conditions today than they were forty years ago: from an average of three days a year of extreme heat, to thirty days.