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Searing heatwave bakes Europe

Four nuclear power plants in Germany cut production drastically to avoid overheating water in cooling towers that empty into rivers.
It was so hot off Spain's Mediterranean coast that water temperatures were up by as many as three degrees from last summer. In one stretch between Tarragona and Murcia, the sea temperature rose to 29C (84.2F).
The peak temperature has been recorded in Spain in Seville at 41C and zookeepers and forest rangers alike have been continuously spraying water to keep animals cool and quash fires.
Heatwave kills 30,000 eels in Europe's River Rhine: Soaring temperatures have claimed the lives of 30,000 eels in Europe's busiest waterway, the river Rhine, authorities said on Friday.
A spokesman for the Environment Ministry in North Rhine-Westphalia said 15,000 of the eels had died in the state, with another 15,000 deaths recorded in the Dutch section of the 820 mile river.