The continent, which has been warming twice the global average since the 1980s, saw its warmest summer on record last year, with countries including France, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain and the UK experiencing their warmest year on record.
Crop-withering drought, record sea-surface temperatures and unprecedented glacier melt are among the consequences laid out in a report by the World Meteorological Organisation and the European Union's Copernicus Climate Change Service.
But impacts are becoming increasingly severe across the world, with regions in the northern hemisphere and around the poles seeing particularly rapid warming. "Unfortunately, this cannot be considered a one-off occurrence or an oddity of the climate," said Copernicus Director Carlo Buontempo in the report.
Marine heat waves — which can displace or even kill species — also lasted for up to five months in several regions including the western Mediterranean Sea, English Channel and southern Arctic.
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