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Paris is a mineral city, which makes it difficult to adapt to heatwaves due to climate change, says Sebastien Maire, who arrived in 2013 as the city's Chief Resilience Officer

Making Paris more resilient, getting it to change its ways [interview]

Spotlight on France episode 16

Spotlight on France

Podcast: Scorched grapes, paying family caregivers, and France's love affair with McDonald's

People cool off in the sea in Nice as a heatwave hits much of the country, France, 27 June 2019.

French 2019 heatwaves claimed 1500 lives

Learning to live with the neighbours.

OPINION - france – politics

Eye on France: Bear-faced wolf attack!

Telling it like it is: François de Rugy in our studios at RFI.

OPINION - france - politics

Eye on France: Scandal-scarred de Rugy's revenge

75% of France's electricity is generated from nuclear, the highest proportion in Europe

France's nuclear electricity production 'threatened by heatwaves'

High temperatures have brought delays for some trains, including high-speed TGVs, over concernes that tracks will buckle in the heat

Heatwave affecting French train tracks

French rail tracks can’t keep up with recent extreme heat

People cool off in the Trocadero fountains across from the Eiffel Tower in Paris as a heatwave hit much of the country.

Paris sizzles under record temperatures as European heatwave continues

A firefighter trying to put out the flames near the village of Casais de Sao Bento in Macao, in central Portugal, 22 July 2019

EUROPE HEATWAVE

Europe beset by scorching temperatures as Portugal fires abate

Drought and high temperatures forecast for most of France.

Eye on France: Another heatwave, another political scandal

A woman bathes in the Trocadero Fountain near the Eiffel Tower in Paris during a heatwave on June 28, 2019. The temperature in France on June 28 surpassed 45 degrees Celsius (113 degrees Fahrenheit) for the first time ever.

France - climate - weather - heatwave

Large parts of France facing drought after heatwave

Spotlight on France episode 14

Spotlight on France

Podcast: sheep-shearing, spanking ban and France's obsession with spelling

The Yellow Vests demonstrate in Montpellier, southern France on 8 June, 2019.

France - yellow vests

Yellow vests make a limited appearance in French record-breaking heat

Spotlight on France episode 13

Spotlight on France

Podcast: French football fans turn to women, homeopathy under attack, and radicalisation in the public sector

Animal carers throw ice to sea lions at the Paris Zoological Park in the Bois de Vincennes in the east of Paris, during an unprecedented June heatwave across most of the country

France sizzles under record-breaking 45C+

After heavy loss of life in 2003 heatwave, French ministry of health has issued plenty of advance health warnings

'Difficult days ahead' warns minister as France bakes in 40°C heat

Mauritania has already seen repeated episodes of severe drought.

OPINION - france

Eye on France: Feeling the heat

Tourists splash in a public fountain near the Eiffel Tower in Paris, 22 June 2019.

Paris enters into week of extreme heat

Not all Paris metros were created equally: some are cooler than others.

Paris transport guide: how to keep your cool during the heatwave

Temperatures are expected to hit as high as 40C in the coming heatwave, which will hit France from Sunday and last an entire week.

France braces for rare June heatwave

In the Indian capital, conditions due to the extreme heat, while severe, pale in comparison to the northern Bihar state, New Delhi, le 14 juin 2019.

Heatwave and encephalitis deaths skyrocket in Bihar, northern India

A boy cools off with an open tap as New Delhi bakes under the relentless sun, 14 June 2019.

Dozens dead in India’s prolonged heatwave as rains delayed

A labourer drinks water as another looks on, on a hot summer day at a grain market in Chandigarh, India 19 April 2016.

No relief in sight as extreme heatwave sweeps India

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Australia swelters in hottest January on record

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