Europe is baking under a scorching heat wave, with health warnings in place across Western and Central Europe as temperatures climb to record-breaking highs.

After days of record temperatures in Western Europe, the extreme heat is easing there. Now, Central Europe is facing days of dangerous swelter. Note: Data is as of Source: European Centre for Medium-Range Weather. William B. Davis and Bea Malsky/The New ...

Here's why the Pulitzer Center is dedicated to climate coverage If you live in the U.K. or anywhere else in Europe, I don’t need to tell you about the impacts of this week’s intense and record-breaking heat wave.

Punishing temperatures are scorching Europe as it swelters under a fierce heat dome, bringing dangerous conditions to swaths of the fastest-warming continent. Follow for live updates.

A Spanish monitoring agency said an estimated 212 deaths could be attributed to the heat wave since Sunday. Five people in Italy have died from heat exposure this week, the country’s main news agency said.

Stark new data show how much the spring heat wave that has been affecting much of Western Europe has shattered temperature records. The heat has been linked to 12 deaths in the U.K. alone. Three occurred on Wednesday and Thursday, when three teenage boys ...