{
  "id": 1718683,
  "title": "Drier soils may turn late summer into prolonged extreme heat",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/18/drier-soils-may-turn-late-summer-into-prolonged-extreme-heat",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-18T13:20:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-drier-soils-late-summer-prolonged.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The summers of recent years have been hot, but not unusual from a meteorological perspective. According to researchers at Leipzig University, though, the next extreme summer would far exceed anything we have experienced so far.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
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  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}