Another wave of intense heat is set to sweep across an already parched Europe this week, raising wildfire risks, threatening crops and drying watersheds feeding the region’s critically low rivers.

Another round of intense heat is expected to sweep across large swaths of Europe this week. Forecasters warned that rapidly rising temperatures, combined with persistently bone-dry conditions, could worsen a severe threat of wildfires.

Unusually high temperatures were also forecast in coming days across a swathe of countries not accustomed to the heat

Europe's heat wave exposes buried history and new threats — Nazi-era wrecks emerge from the Danube, nuclear reactors face cooling risks, and Greece battles deadly wildfires.

After a week of record-breaking temperatures, Europe is set to bake under searing heat again next week. Here's what you need to know.

Italy took the unprecedented step of putting all its major cities on the top level of health alert due to high temperatures on ​Thursday, while Hungary turned off the lights at some of its best-known buildings to save energy as a heatwave maintained its grip on large parts of ‌Europe.

Europe is bracing for another heat wave this week, its fifth since May. Rapidly rising temperatures, combined with intense drought conditions, are also worsening the threat of wildfires. A broad area of high pressure — known as a heat dome — will ...

The heat has set a national temperature record in Austria, fueled wildfires in France and disrupted energy and transportation systems across the continent.

Near Opatovac, Croatia,receding water levels have also begun to reveal a shows the wreckage of the Hungarian cargo ship Fulton which sunk in the Danube in 1937 while transporting coal.