{"id":4874,"date":"2025-12-31T12:57:18","date_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:57:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/?p=4874"},"modified":"2025-12-31T12:57:18","modified_gmt":"2025-12-31T12:57:18","slug":"from-deadly-heatwaves-to-flash-floods-how-europes-extreme-weather-events-defined-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/2025\/12\/31\/from-deadly-heatwaves-to-flash-floods-how-europes-extreme-weather-events-defined-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"From deadly heatwaves to flash floods: How Europe\u2019s extreme weather events defined 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In 2025, Europe faced record heatwaves and floods, resulting in over 24,000 heat-related deaths and \u20ac43 billion in economic losses. Scientists attributed the vast majority of these fatalities to human-induced climate change, with Spain, Italy, and Romania being hardest hit. As the world&#8217;s fastest-warming continent, experts warn these extreme events now represent a &#8220;new normal.&#8221; Future projections suggest annual climate-related costs could triple by 2029.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Date<\/strong>: December 27, 2025. <strong>Source<\/strong>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/green\/2025\/12\/27\/from-deadly-heatwaves-to-flash-floods-how-europes-extreme-weather-events-defined-2025\">euronews.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2025, Europe faced record heatwaves and floods, resulting in over 24,000 heat-related deaths and \u20ac43 billion in economic losses. Scientists attributed the vast majority of these fatalities to human-induced climate change, with Spain, Italy, and Romania being hardest hit. As the world&#8217;s fastest-warming continent, experts warn these extreme events now represent a &#8220;new normal.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":4884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-crisis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4876,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4874\/revisions\/4876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4884"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elearning.uia.no\/observatory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}