Classrooms can be particularly vulnerable amid climate change, as the hottest times of the year increasingly overlap with the academic calendar.

The unseasonably hot weather has already claimed at least 18 lives and history shows more are likely on the way.

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French climate scientist Christophe Cassou said the heat wave would have been virtually impossible in the preindustrial era.

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