Vast swathes of blackened pine forest in south-west France are to be replanted and homes and businesses rebuilt “according to different rules” dictated by the climate crisis, Emmanuel Macron has said, as he called for a European fleet of planes to fight wildfires.
A week of 40C-plus heat – part of a global trend of rising temperatures that is attributed by scientists largely to human activity – has caused misery from Portugal to the UK, smashing records and fuelling fires that have ravaged tens of thousands of hectares of land.
