Without urgent action, yearly extreme heat waves await Europeans

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Crop yields will be halved, due to the heat.

The report, by the European Union environmental agency , 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.The picture painted is of a fragile European ecosystem increasingly attacked on every side.

Already 39% of all butterflies and 9% of all common birds have disappeared from European skies since 1990 in what the EEA called"a major decline in biodiversity." "We need to go to fundamental solutions," Hans Bruyninckx, the agency's executive director, toldReuters ahead of the report's release."We need to bend the trend in the next decade - it is a critical decade."

 

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