Ajit Niranjan

Ajit Niranjan in Coschen As the afternoon heat rose to a dizzying 41.7C (107F) in eastern Brandenburg on Sunday, taking German temperatures

Ajit Niranjan Europe environment correspondent When storm after storm battered the Mediterranean at the start of the year, drowning fields

Ajit Niranjan and Damian Carrington Western Europe has been scorched by its hottest June on record, scientists have said, as the UK enters its third heatwave of the year and wildfires ravage France and Spain.

Pippa Neill and Ajit Niranjan The UK is sweltering through the peak of its third heatwave of the year as countries around Europe struggle to recover from an early onslaught of baking summer heat.

Blaze made worse by heat, strong wind and plentiful dry vegetation amid hollowing out of rural population

Ajit Niranjan As firefighters struggle to quell the flames ravaging southern Spain and doctors treat the injured, a horrific picture of the fallout is emerging.

Annual State of the UK Climate analysis finds last four years in UK are in top five hottest on record

Ajit Niranjan Europe environment correspondent The UK's climatic extremes are becoming increasingly normal, a report has found, with last

Ajit Niranjan From the comfort of a friend's air-conditioned car last weekend, I watched a dozen sweaty men on a “beer bike tour” chug booze

Tom Greenhill, the chartered engineer behind the Heatwave Toolkit, provides tips on keeping your home cool in the heat; the Guardian’s Europe environment correspondent, Ajit Niranjan, reports on what governments across the continent are doing in response to this record-breaking summer