Slovak authorities shot and killed a female bear and her two cubs after the mother bear seriously injured a man. The animals were considered an immediate danger to residents and road users in the Turany area, in the north of the country.
Last weekend, a French animal rights activist bought a lobster for 300 euros at a restaurant and immediately released it into the Mediterranean Sea.
In the coming days, northern Spain is expecting a massive influx of visitors: about half a million additional tourists are expected for Wednesday evening’s total solar eclipse.
A buoy near Sa Dragonera, west of the Spanish island of Mallorca, recorded a sea surface temperature of 33.2 °C, possibly the highest ever measured in the open Mediterranean Sea. This was reported by Aemet, the Spanish meteorological service, which recorded the temperature at 4 p.m. on Wednesday.
A major pollution incident was detected in the Meuse River on Tuesday near Wanze, a municipality in the Belgian province of Liège.
A used upper stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 crashed into the Moon on Wednesday morning. This impact is not considered dangerous, but it may offer scientists a rare opportunity to study an impact on the Moon.
On Monday, two teenagers were struck by lightning in the French Pyrenees during a mountain hike near Cauterets, in the Hautes-Pyrénées. A 14-year-old boy suffered cardiac arrest. He and a 21-year-old man were transported to the hospital in Tarbes by helicopter.
Due to the extremely low water level in the Danube, Hungary was forced to almost entirely shut down its only nuclear power plant, Paks (which has four reactors and accounts for 40% of Hungary’s electricity production), during the night from Monday to Tuesday.
Italy has placed almost all of its major cities on the highest “red” heat alert: a new heat wave caused by a subtropical anticyclone from North Africa is ravaging the Southern European country.
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