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Europe’s Deadly Heat Wave
France recorded over a thousand extra deaths last week amid a record-breaking heat wave, with fatalities concentrated in private homes near Paris, underscoring Europe’s deadly vulnerability to extreme heat. As the WHO warns Europe is warming faster than any other continent, scientists confirm climate change is making once-in-a-generation heat waves far more common—events now nearly impossible just fifty years ago. Across Germany, wildfires rage, Berlin police deploy water cannons, and infrastructure buckles under the strain. With over 1,300 excess deaths since mid-June, the WHO labels heat…
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