How I survived the record Paris heatwave while seven months pregnant

Paris experienced its worst heatwave on record last week—surpassing the devastating twenty oh three event that killed nearly fifteen thousand people. Guardian journalist Megan Clement covered the crisis from an especially vulnerable vantage point: seven months pregnant, living in Seine-Saint-Denis, one of mainland France's poorest and most heat-exposed regions. She describes feeling abandoned by authorities, with even worse temperatures predicted for the coming week. It's a stark reminder that heatwaves don't affect everyone equally.

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