Luxury group LVMH said no water was wasted in the giant artificial waterfall built by its flagship Louis Vuitton brand to open Paris Fashion Week on Tuesday, as the French capital sweltered through a record-breaking heatwave that has made water use a sensitive issue.
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Human-caused climate change made this week’s soaring night-time temperatures 100 times more likely than they would have been just two decades ago, they said.
The city mayor told busy Parisians to slow down as large parts of Western Europe remained in the grip of a deadly heatwave that has claimed dozens of lives, disrupted power supplies, and shut schools and cultural landmarks.
Record heat across Europe has disrupted transport and forced schools and tourist sites to close, with temperatures rising as much as 18 degrees Celsius (32.4 degrees Fahrenheit) above seasonal norms, according to the Reuters Climate Monitor.
As night falls over Mount Penteli and the streetlights of greater Athens wink in the valley below, a team of three from Greece’s forestry service carry out what they say is a near-impossible task: scouting hills that surround the capital for wildfires.
President Donald Trump’s administration does not need to reinstall dozens of exhibits that it removed from national parks on topics such as slavery and climate change before the nation’s 250th anniversary next month, a U.S. appeals court ruled on Tuesday.
As a heatwave pushes temperatures above 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit) across Europe, companies are trying to protect workers, to keep operations running and capitalise on soaring demand for anything that might offer relief.
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Globally, just under half a million deaths a year are estimated to be due to excess heat.
The country has just recorded its hottest afternoon and night since records began in 1947. Fifty-four departments are under red alert in what forecasters described as unprecedented.