Homes: European Heatwave

homes: In the past few months we have covered stories ranging from the record-breaking European heatwave, where temperatures of over 45C were recorded in France for the first time, a heatwave and drought in India, where thousands abandoned their homes, and the unprecedented Arctic wildfires that could be seen from space, according to The Guardian. Such events are not just weather however, and we follow their impact the buckling European road and rail infrastructure not suitable for the new climate era, the desperate search for water in Chennai and the Greenland residents traumatised by the climate emergency as life becomes more precarious and social problems such as alcoholism intensify. For many readers, it is something they experience to varying degrees of intensity at first hand a hotter summer, an earlier spring, floods in autumn but by linking up those experiences, we are able to show how interconnected this crisis is. In Italy, the Planpincieux glacier in the Mont Blanc massif is changing so rapidly that avalanches and debris falls have led to deaths and evacuations, leaving residents in the town of Courmayeurfearing how much longer it will hold. Latin American correspondent Tom Philips took a 2,000km journey through the Amazon to see the new age of wrecking ushered in by Brazil's president, Jair Bolsonaro, where the environmental agency is being dismantled and gold seekers and soy farmers anticipate an economic boom from deforestation. Our reporters have also travelled to where governments and individuals are making it worse. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.