The next phase of the blistering summer is here, with warnings of more deaths, record high temperatures, drying rivers, drought and nuclear power problems.

The heat waves roiling western Europe this summer toppled an average temperature record for the June-July period set in 2022, Copernicus says

Europe is bracing for another wave of extreme heat, with temperatures forecast to reach the mid-30s Celsius in parts of Britain and France and spread across much of the continent.…