Nick Perry and Ali BekhtaouiAFP·10 Sep, 2026 07:09 PM4 mins to readThe EU climate monitor said that August was the hottest single month ever recorded globally and that summer in western Europe was the warmest it had measured. Photo / Daniel Mihailescu, AFPEurope’s climate monitor says that August was the hottest month ever recorded around the world and warned of worse to come, as an unprecedented El Niño pattern grows stronger.
Global temperatures over land and sea soared to all-time highs in August and capped an extreme summer of heatwaves and
