Perrine Mouterde

The United Nations Environment Programme has acknowledged the world is set to exceed the most ambitious target of the Paris Agreement and outlined a new trajectory to bring temperatures back below that threshold before the century's end. Doing so would require enormous efforts and radical transformations.

Such a summer, which today has a one in 100 chance of occurring, would have been virtually impossible without human-caused climate change.

The El Niño climate anomaly, which occurs in the Pacific every two to seven years, triggers droughts and floods, disrupts entire sectors of the economy, and raises global temperatures.

'Planet Insect' (1/6). Entomologists are often fascinated by insects from an early age and misunderstood by those around them.

A committee in the French Senate examining AI's environmental impact said that developing AI-focused data centers in France could help reduce the technology's environmental footprint.

European media outlets have revealed that at least 20 authors of one of the flagship reports from the body responsible for synthesizing the state of climate knowledge have direct ties to the oil and gas sector.

Although Emmanuel Macron had pledged to reduce methane emissions from the fossil fuel sector, he ultimately called for the implementation of European legislation on the issue to be postponed, citing the energy crisis.

With 60% of Europe's liquefied natural gas imports now coming from the United States, the carbon footprint of this energy source remains fiercely contested.

According to the European Copernicus service, the average summer temperature reached 21.7°C (71°F), well above average, and river flows dropped to their lowest levels in more than thirty years. Yet European Union member states continued to invest in fossil fuels.

The French health authorities reported that 8,124 deaths were related to the extreme heatwaves between late May and late August in France. Le Monde spoke to the friends and families of 11 of the victims to find out about the lives behind those numbers.