Climate change just caused West Africa’s worst heatwave in living memory

The heatwave struck the Sahel region in March and April 2024. Temperatures in Mali and Burkina Faso soared to over 45°C between 1-5 April. Scientists say the heatwave would have been ‘impossible’ without human-induced climate change and that the heatwave would have been up to 1.5°C cooler in the pre-industrial era.