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‘Scorching, dry summers’: Heat rather than lack of rain is now to blame for Europe’s droughts

“This isn’t just a crisis for farmers, it’s a crisis that trickles down to Europe’s most vulnerable,” says researcher Merel Laauwen.

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00:25This year, it did rain a lot during the winter, especially in the western parts.
00:30And this led to a sort of good greening towards right after the rings.
00:37But then what is sort of interesting here is that the spring has been anomalously dry as well as hard.
00:46And this sort of led to widespread drying of the vegetation in these parts.
00:53And this is why you see a lot of wildfires in these parts.
00:57And that is where the impacts of the droughts come from on this part of the continent.
01:28So as we know, water is important.
01:33And that means that food security is one of the major factors that is going to or major sectors that
01:42will be impacted by droughts.
01:44So often in the aftermath of a drought, we see that, you know, often essential grain prices go up.
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