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.