The end of last month marked an aviation milestone: on 20 July, there were more planes in the sky than ever before on a single day – 262,000 of them – as recorded by website Flightradar24.
At the same time as these kerosene-burning planes made their journeys, tens of thousands of tourists were being forced to flee holiday resorts, as wildfires fuelled by the climate crisis ripped across southern Europe.
