In nearly 25 years as a funeral director, Gautier Caton has never experienced anything like France’s record-breaking late-June heatwave, when he rented five refrigerated containers to store bodies arriving at up to three times the normal rate. A fifth-generation undertaker who grew up with coffins stacked in his parents’ garage, Caton joined the family firm … Continue reading Deadly heatwaves force an ageing France to confront a hotter future