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Homeowners are being forced to tear out air conditioning from their private properties under climate laws, despite rising temperatures. Council planning officers ordered residents to remove air-con ...

Air conditioning can bring significant benefits but also real harms. The answer is for it to take its place alongside a comprehensive state plan for climate adaptation As Britain reels from Europe’s ...

This year’s heatwave is not Europe’s first, but why is AC still a foreign concept? Immo Wegmann/Unsplash More than 20,000 perished following a record-breaking heat dome over Europe in August 2003, the ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Europe is really, really hot right now. Across much of the continent, temperatures have surged to ...

Families across the country are having their annual discussion/argument about whether it's time to invest in air con. Less than 5% of UK homes have it, but that number is set to grow as sweltering ...

France's record heat last week has been linked to around 1,000 deaths of mostly elderly people. Heat danger is a problem being felt across Europe, which has the oldest population of any continent and ...

Unlike the US or parts of Asia, many homes in Germany and northern Europe aren't equipped to deal with extreme heat. But as the world gets hotter, trends are changing. But across large parts of Europe ...

With temperatures soaring, France is being forced to re-think its longstanding reservations about one possible answer to climate change: air-con. This week debate about la clim (climatisation) has ...

This summer, the transatlantic culture war has fixated on an unlikely flash point: air-conditioning. Some commentators in the United States have taken the opportunity to lecture Europeans, and perhaps ...

Ask people in France about the extreme and deadly heat the continent is going through, and you’ll get some choice phrases. Stark, but it is an improvement from 2003, when it’s estimated tens of ...

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