Russia
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Climate change
When the soil dries out, Europe’s heat waves will become more extreme than previously thought. Evaporation cools the earth surface and hence soil moisture is a constraint on heat wave temperatures. Depletion of soil moisture may strongly amplify future heat waves, like the one of 2010.