Almost half of EU land is currently under a drought warning or worse because of a combination of heatwaves and a ‘wide and persistent’ lack of rain, experts have warned.
An interactive map reveals the countries most at risk, from France and western Germany to southern Greece, Romania and Croatia.
It has been put together using new data from the European Drought Observatory (EDO), which shows some 45 per cent of the bloc’s territory under ‘warning’ conditions during the 10