Space view reveals Europe’s heatwave scars: rivers dry, glaciers melt, wildfires blaze
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Satellite imagery from Copernicus/Sentinel-2 shows Western Europe bearing the marks of record heat: shrinking Alpine glaciers, widespread wildfires, and rivers at historically low levels, with NDVI indicating stressed vegetation across France, the UK and western Germany; experts warn ongoing climate-change effects could worsen agriculture and energy cooling.
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