As gas-hungry Europe revives coal plants, complicating its climate ambitions, the blistering heat this summer shows just what’s at stake.
by Laura Millan Lombrana, Megan Durisin and John Ainger, Daily MaverickEurope is frying in devastating heat even as it brings back coal by Laura Millan Lombrana, Megan Durisin and John Ainger, Daily Maverick July 14, 2022 Southern France was slammed by a heatwave so intense in June that Celine Imart was forced to harvest rapeseed in the middle of the night to avoid searing-hot tractors from sparking fires in her fields.
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