In order to avoid the catastrophic effects of runaway climate change — rising seas, super-storms, famine and war — the world needs to invest some $2.4 trillion a year through 2035 in order to cut fossil fuel emissions, according to scientists. (Image: Shutterstock)
Climate change is picking up pace in Europe, thrusting farmers and power generators onto the front lines of a battle with nature that threatens to upend the lives of the half billion people who occupy the world's biggest trading bloc.
Satellites collect weather, soil, and and water data
Last year was the third hottest on record and underlines "the clear warming trend" experienced in the last four decades, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service, which operates a network of satellites for the European Union that collects weather, soil, air and water data.
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