Temperature records have been broken in several countries across central and eastern Europe as the extreme weather that has caused wildfires and droughts across the continent continues. Authorities in Poland were forced to shut down the Kozienice and Połaniec coal-fired power plants after critically low water levels in the Vistula River limited cooling water supplies. View image in fullscreen Low water levels in Poland’s Vistula River on Thursday. Photograph: Wojtek Jargiło/EPAIn Germany, climate activists demanding an end to the use of fossil fuels demonstrated outside the chancellery against the lack of government action to keep people safe from extreme heat. “This extreme heat and its consequences are the result of a fossil fuel policy that is completely irresponsible and extremely dangerous,” said Annkatrin Schwirten, from Fridays for Future Berlin.