France tightens restrictions as Europe faces dangerous heat wave approaching 40°C

Extreme heat poses direct health risks to vulnerable populations including elderly, children, and outdoor workers; heat-related illness and mortality are primary concerns during prolonged exposure.

As summer solstice arrives, Europe finds itself beneath a heat dome that is less a seasonal inconvenience than a sustained test of human and institutional endurance. France, with half its territory under the highest tier of heat alert, has moved to restrict public drinking and outdoor sport — interventions that speak not to caution but to hard-won knowledge about how extreme heat kills. Temperatures approaching 40 degrees Celsius are expected to persist across the continent, and the true measure of this moment will not be found in the first difficult days, but in the weeks that follow, when bo

France tightens restrictions as Europe faces dangerous heat wave approaching 40°C

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