Tourists stand next to the fountains of Trocadero next to the Eiffel Tower, as Europe is under an unusually extreme heat wave, in Paris, France, Wednesday, August 3, 2022
FRANCE has activated a crisis task force to alleviate the impact of the worst drought in the country’s history, the government announced today.
Water restrictions have been placed in nearly all of France’s 96 mainland departments, with at least 62 on the highest level of alert due to the third extreme heatwave of the summer.
Meteorology bureau Meteo-France said there was little sign of relief in the coming weeks.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
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