In the summer of 2026 it turns out to be one of the most difficult for Western Europe in recent years, with several waves of heat and temperatures exceeding 40 degrees Celsius. The first signs of an unusually hot summer appeared as early as May. Temperatures reached unprecedented levels in several countries, breaking records that were valid here and [...]
These days anyone who takes his walk or just sits on the Rhine in Bonn or in some other tributary town feels that something is missing. It is the cargo ships that usually pass unstoppable, almost in convoys, carrying goods or fuel on the route of about 1,200 km linking the Swiss Alps to [...]
On 1 July the EU put a 3 euro cap on every product from Chinese platforms to protect its market. The heat, however, forces her to surrender to a Chinese product. The climate crisis renews high temperature records in countries that by early 2020 did not have the slightest need for [...]
When mercury hits red in the European South, the first spontaneous move is the push of a button. The air conditioner gets ahead, the familiar bomb fills the room and an artificial breath of frozen air offers immediate relief. While air conditioning is now considered necessary the peoples of the South have been applying alternative cooling methods for centuries, this [...]
