Record heat wave sweeps eastern Europe, Ukraine cuts power as deaths mount

More than 1,300 excess deaths recorded across Europe since June 21, including children who died in locked cars and youths who drowned seeking relief; France reported 74 drowning deaths since June 18.

Across eastern Europe, a heat wave of historic proportions has pressed its weight upon nations already carrying heavy burdens — war, aging infrastructure, and the quiet accumulation of a warming world. Slovakia, Hungary, and Poland rewrote their temperature records as more than 130 million people endured conditions scientists say climate change has made not merely more likely, but possible at all. The toll is not abstract: over 1,300 excess deaths since late June, children lost in locked cars, young people drowned in desperate search of relief. This is not a summer anomaly to be weathered and

Record heat wave sweeps eastern Europe, Ukraine cuts power as deaths mount

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