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Climate change: Europe heat sparks harmful ozone pollution, 'extreme' fire risk

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Europe's searing heatwave is generating very high levels of harmful ozone pollution, the region's atmospheric monitoring service warned Tuesday, adding that large areas of western Europe also face "extreme" danger of wildfires. Record temperatures, which scientists say are driven by climate change, are predicted in France and Britain Tuesday as suffocating heat that has gripped southwest Europe and sparked ferocious wildfires moves northwards. François Gemenne, a specialist in environmental geopolitics and migration dynamics, joined us on set.

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