A death at work in the age of extreme heat – podcast

Samira Shackle and Jeff Goodell explain the dangers resulting from extreme heat, and what society can do to mitigate them

David Azevedo died because of the heat. A construction worker living in a small city in central France, he had recently started a new job when a heatwave struck in the summer of 2022. He would not even see out his first week.

The journalist Samira Shackle interviews his sister Anne-Marie about what happened, and how her family have feared every heatwave since.