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There’s a ‘very extreme danger’ of more wildfires amid record-breaking temperatures

France’s battle to contain ferocious wildfires in the southwestern Gironde region entered a second week on Tuesday, with more than 19,000 hectares of pine forest already reduced to ashes. While the ecological and economic damage is immense, some conservationists see the fires as an opportunity to adapt Europe’s largest artificial…

The French government on Tuesday announced the launch of a public tender offer to buy out minority shareholders in the national power generator, EDF. The state already owns 84 percent of EDF shares, and is offering nearly 10 billion euos for the remaining 16 percent, currently in private hands.

As firefighters battled blazes near France's Bay of Arcachon, Paul Virtue, a former Londoner who moved his family to the region nearly two decades ago to build a new life, was hoping his house would be spared.

World champion Max Verstappen says it would be a 'big shame' to his lose 'favourite track' Spa-Francorchamps from the 2023 Formula 1 calendar.

Despite having run its revamped Formula 1 car for two race weekends, Williams is still well behind where it would like to be in understanding the extent of its progress.

Air pollution is spiking across Britain, France, and southern Europe amid record-breaking temperatures and scorching wildfires.

In just one week, two fires have destroyed nearly 20,000 hectares in the south-west of France, forcing thousands of people to evacuate, making it the worst season in the past thirty years.

Wildfires raged across the Gironde winegrowing area of southwestern France on Tuesday, where a man has been taken into custody suspected of arson, authorities said.

The wildfires continue to rage across the parched countryside of Europe while the UK is forecast to see temperatures hit 40C for the first time today after logging its warmest night on record