Climate crisis-driven heat sucking soils dry as extreme drought hits Europe

Analysis shows how heatwaves are making atmosphere thirstier, damaging water supplies, food production and power generationExtreme heat supercharged by the climate crisis is sucking Europe dry in summer and intensifying the drought hitting the continent, a scientific analysis has found.Record-breaking heatwaves meant the hot atmosphere strongly evaporated water from rivers, lakes, soils and plants - conditions made 80 times more likely by global heating in western Europe and 40 times more likely...