FRANCE 24 English published this video item, entitled “Global warming: How to cool down big cities? • FRANCE 24 English” – below is their description.
This past summer has seen heatwaves in California, Greece, Turkey and Algeria, while July was the hottest month ever recorded on Earth. Urban centres are disproportionately affected by global warming, with cities often several degrees warmer than the countryside in summer months. Paris and its suburbs have become an open-air laboratory for testing out new solutions. In the next 80 years, the French capital will see up to an extra two months of heatwaves per year. As a result, local authorities are working out how best to adapt. Our team reports.
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In This Story: Algeria
Algeria, officially the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. The capital and most populous city is Algiers, located in the far north of the country on the Mediterranean coast. With an area of 2,381,741 square kilometres (919,595 sq mi), Algeria is the tenth-largest country in the world, and the largest by area in the African Union and the Arab world. With an estimated population of over 44 million, it is the eighth-most populous country in Africa.
Algeria is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia, to the east by Libya, to the southeast by Niger, to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and the Western Saharan territory, to the west by Morocco, and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea. The country has a semi-arid geography, with most of the population living in the fertile north and the Sahara dominating the geography of the south. This arid geography makes the country very vulnerable to climate change.
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