Climate change likely contributed to 'catastrophic' French frost: scientists

Paris (AFP) June 15, 2021

In April a rare late frost descended on some of France's best-known and most prestigious wine-producing regions, decimating a third of French wine production worth around two billion euros in the space of a few nights. And scientists said Tuesday that climate change had sharply increased the odds of such an event that minister Julien Denormandie called "probably the greatest agricultural ca