With the river too shallow for freight, a nuclear plant almost offline and big firms ordered to curb power use, Hungary’s heatwave is rippling straight into citizens’ jobs, bills and fears of blackouts.
The target is the Mina do Barroso, an open-pit lithium mine planned by London-listed mining developer Savannah Resources. It would be one of the largest in Western Europe.
While heatwaves force school closures, very little EU money is earmarked for adaptation projects to cool the buildings people depend on every day.
The shift from migration and climate wars to wallet issues is redrawing Europe’s political map, empowering forces that want a far bigger state at the very moment public coffers are already stretched.
Record-breaking wildfires have already burned vast areas worldwide this year, fueled by droughts, heatwaves and climate change. Beyond destroying ecosystems and releasing massive CO2 emissions, fires threaten long-term environmental recovery. Is there a way we can adapt to this new reality?
