France recorded 'hottest summer ever': Environment minister

The UK just had its hottest summer ever

Rock in Earth's mantle flows like hot metal, and moves fastest under the edges of tectonic plates. Recent work from CNRS in France finds that adding stochasticity into models of mantle rock movement helps capture this flow rate variability to produce more realistic models of plate tectonics.

France Had Never Seen a ‘Fire Cloud’ Until This Month’s Record-Smashing Blazes