European Heatwave — France
A record summer killed tens of thousands across Europe, with France worst affected; a turning point for heat-emergency planning.
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An archive of 57 recorded disasters — natural catastrophes, industrial accidents, transport disasters, fires, crowd crushes and epidemics. Every event has its own page. Our own hand-written records come first; the rest are imported from Wikidata and Wikipedia.
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Russian Heatwave and Wildfires — Russia
Record heat, drought and peat-fire smog produced Russia's deadliest environmental disaster of modern times.
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