Hottest nights ever in Central Europe. A minimum of 28°C is not good for sleeping. Air conditioners weren't necessary until recently in these countries.

Extreme Temperatures Around the World@extremetemps.bsky.social · 4h ago

HISTORIC Thousands of records hot night allover Europe with MINIMUMS even >28C in Austria,Hungary,Czechia and Slovakia (never happened before). MIN 28.4C Skalica SLOVAKIA HIGHEST MINIMUM IN HISTORY again ! MIN 28.0 Budapest Janos HUNGARY HIGHEST MINIMUM IN HISTORY

This is huge, and scary not just for the growers but for all people who are being fed from those greenhouses. @georgemonbiot.bsky.social just wrote a powerful rebuttal of the nonsense in the British press; he could’ve used this as an urgent example. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Murderous heat, an endangered food supply, decimated landscapes: embrace the Mediterranean life | George Monbiot

As climate disaster stares us in the face, the radical right says ‘Embrace the Mediterranean life’. Embrace death, more like it, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Code Black for water shortage in the Delft region of the Netherlands! No use of surface water (canals, lakes) allowed anymore. Water managers fear intrusion of salty seawater, as damage to dikes due to low water levels need to be prevented. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Vanwege de droogte voor het eerst de sluizen dicht in het waterrijke westen: ‘Het is code zwart, vanaf middernacht is water onttrekken verboden’

Droogte: Vanaf woensdagnacht gaan in het Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland de sluizen dicht en gaat een verbod in om oppervlaktewater te onttrekken. Dat besef lijkt nog niet bij iedereen ingedaald. „Voor...

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Trump refused to sign a bipartisan bill to build more housing. Why? Because there was nothing in it for him. No Trump Tower. No ballroom. No gold-plated anything with his name. But the new housing law will lower costs—even without Trump’s signature.

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Dutch water distribution coordinator: "We've always had the luxury of sufficient water, so agriculture and shipping were possible everywhere. Now we have to get used to this not being the case anymore. The Netherlands have to become more resilient." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

De houding van Nederlanders tegenover droogte moet veranderen, zeggen experts. ‘Wij zijn een verwend land’

Watermanagement: De natuur, landbouw en scheepvaart kampen met grote droogteproblemen, maar eerdere investeringen verzachten de schade. Watermanagers verhoogden tijdig het peil van de ‘nationale regen...

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EXTRAORDINARY EVENT HUNDREDS OF RECORDS IN THE CZECH REPUBLIC We are witnessing the most extreme event Europe has ever seen 40.6 Doksany HOTTEST AUGUST DAY IN CZECH HISTORY Min 27.9 Bystřice pod Hostýnem HOTTEST NIGHT EVER IN CZECHIA Nearly every single record was destroyed ! Kudos Map: CHMU

HISTORIC 41 DEGREES IN AUSTRIA HOTTEST DAY IN AUSTRIA HISTORY 10 STATIONS >40c: Absolute madness Hundreds of records pulverized throughout the country.

Code Black for water shortage in the Delft region of the Netherlands! No use of surface water (canals, lakes) allowed anymore. Water managers fear intrusion of salty seawater, as damage to dikes due to low water levels need to be prevented. www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

Vanwege de droogte voor het eerst de sluizen dicht in het waterrijke westen: ‘Het is code zwart, vanaf middernacht is water onttrekken verboden’

Droogte: Vanaf woensdagnacht gaan in het Hoogheemraadschap van Delfland de sluizen dicht en gaat een verbod in om oppervlaktewater te onttrekken. Dat besef lijkt nog niet bij iedereen ingedaald. „Voor...

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Two to go.

NOELREPORTS@noelreports.com · 20h ago

DniproOsint says Ukraine struck all 5 ferries serving the Kerch crossing in July. Three suffered critical damage, while Lavrentiy and Panagia now operate only as unpowered barges with tugs. The crossing remains one of the few relatively safe fuel supply routes to occupied Crimea. #Ukraine

Monday, Vienna (capital of Austria, city of 2 million) broke it's all-time high temperature record: 40.1°C. And today again: 40.8°C! www.nu.nl/buitenland/6...

Ook Oostenrijk beleeft deze zomer warmste dag ooit: 40,8 graden in Wenen

Oostenrijk heeft een nieuw temperatuurrecord. In de hoofdstad Wenen werd het dinsdag volgens een voorlopige meting 40,8 graden. Het was nog nooit warmer in het Alpenland. In het oosten van het land ge...

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Five days ago, the Rhine - at the point where it enters the Netherlands - reached its lowest level ever recorded: 6.47 meter above sea level. Now it's at 6.35 m.

Weird to be in cool Norway and see that our hometown is ging through another hot episode in what is starting to look like its warmest summer on record.

Niedrigwasser. Ich weiß nicht mehr, was ich sagen soll, es sieht schlimm aus, alles. Verdorrte Wiesen etc. überall, vertrocknete Bäume. Kein Vogelgezwitscher nirgendwo und dann dieser unfassbar geschrumpfte Fluss in der Mitte der Stadt. #Rheinpegel #Köln #photography #dürre

Greetings from Cologne, it Looks dystopian here.

I would guess NATO countries are not keeping up with these rapid developments in warfare.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · yesterday

🚨 The occupiers have begun to actively use jet drones and "Banderol" in the Chernihiv region - hybrids of a cruise missile and a drone with a speed of up to 650 km/h, which are much more difficult to shoot down. Yesterday, Chernihiv, Pryluky and Novhorod-Siverskyi were under attack.

Wagtail and moon :) #bluesky

Dutch water distribution coordinator: "We've always had the luxury of sufficient water, so agriculture and shipping were possible everywhere. Now we have to get used to this not being the case anymore. The Netherlands have to become more resilient." www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

De houding van Nederlanders tegenover droogte moet veranderen, zeggen experts. ‘Wij zijn een verwend land’

Watermanagement: De natuur, landbouw en scheepvaart kampen met grote droogteproblemen, maar eerdere investeringen verzachten de schade. Watermanagers verhoogden tijdig het peil van de ‘nationale regen...

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'We suncream apples' - how heatwaves are affecting farming in the UK. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Farmers 'suncream' apples to stop them boiling in the heatwaves

Farmers say fruit, cattle and crops are struggling to cope in the heatwaves.

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Wildberries near St. Petersburg 🤩🔥

Five days ago, the Rhine - at the point where it enters the Netherlands - reached its lowest level ever recorded: 6.47 meter above sea level. Now it's at 6.35 m.

Dutch @knmi.nl meteorological institute: July was extremely dry: average rainfall in the Netherlands 13 mm, that's 83% below normal. It was the 8th warmest July on record. www.knmi.nl/over-het-knm...

Zeer droge, warme juli

Juli was een zeer droge maand, met gemiddeld over het land slechts 13 millimeter neerslag (tegen 78 normaal). In het zuidwesten viel op sommige ple...

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"You should support climate action, for your children and grandchildren" is a bit shortsighted. You should support it for everyone living now, especially those already taking the hardest hits all over the world. And neighbours, friends, family, yourself. And future generations. And other species.

Angry farmers block Dutch highway but don't get fined. Because... they had covered their licence plates 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦 The police: that's illegal, but there was little we could do about it "given the situation" 🤡 The difference with the treatment of XR climate activists doing the same on foot is striking.

RTL Nieuws@rtl.nl · 2d ago

Kentekens afgeplakt: geen boete voor boeren die snelweg blokkeerden

"You should support climate action, for your children and grandchildren" is a bit shortsighted. You should support it for everyone living now, especially those already taking the hardest hits all over the world. And neighbours, friends, family, yourself. And future generations. And other species.

Reminded me of this brilliant Letzte Generation come-back (from around 2023): ‘We are allowed to do this. We have a tractor.’ 👌🏻👏🏻

🇬🇷 #Greek firefighters are battling a #wildfire northwest of #Athens for a fourth day, as strong and erratic winds continue to fan the blaze. 🔥 Fires throughout the country have killed five firefighters since last week.

update: they still haven't retracted their wildly misleading X posts

Anne Applebaum@anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 3d ago

Vance, Farage and Weidel posted fear-mongering messages about a Spanish migrant crisis that weren't true. They haven't retracted them. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...

Angry farmers block Dutch highway but don't get fined. Because... they had covered their licence plates 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♀️🤦 The police: that's illegal, but there was little we could do about it "given the situation" 🤡 The difference with the treatment of XR climate activists doing the same on foot is striking.

RTL Nieuws@rtl.nl · 2d ago

Kentekens afgeplakt: geen boete voor boeren die snelweg blokkeerden

Belgium paying for Russia's war effort.

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 2d ago

🇧🇪 Belgium has become reliant on Russian gas due to the war in the Middle East, - Bloomberg All of Belgium’s imported liquefied natural gas last month came from Russia. The shift was caused by a sharp drop in LNG supplies to Europe as shipping through Strait of Hormuz was disrupted.