Europe's latest spell of sizzling heat, which ended last week, caused a threefold rise in heat-related deaths because human-induced climate change boosted the intensity of the heat wave, British scientists said.

The Balkans have been pounded by storms, while wildfires broke out in Türkiye, Spain and France in the last week. View on euronews

The rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution calculated that climate change might have tripled the death toll from the event.