Without urgent action, yearly extreme heat waves await Europeans

A teenager jumps into Alte Donau, an abandoned meander of river Danube during a heat wave in Vienna, Austria July 25,2019. REUTERS

BRUSSELS: Europe faces the prospect of severe heat waves every year and a halving of some of its harvests in the future unless rapid action is taken against climate change, a study said.

The report, by the European Union environmental agency (EEA), foresees that uncontrolled climate change will cause extreme heat waves every year in a continent where France and Spain this year experienced their highest temperatures since records began.