Brussels, July 27 (RHC)-- In Europe, at least five people have died as a massive heat wave grips much of the continent, shattering record high temperatures -- many of which were set during a previous heat wave just weeks ago.

Thermometers in Paris clocked temperatures Thursday of nearly 110 degrees Fahrenheit, an all-time high, with new records also set in Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.

In other climate related news, in Alaska, a series of wildfires driven by record high temperatures has consumed more than 1 million acres of forest. Similar fires in Greenland and Siberia have combined to make 2019’s

Arctic wildfires unprecedented in recorded history. The fires come as new climate data revealed that last month was the hottest June ever observed, with July on pace to become