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Almost 3,000 excess deaths estimated in England and Wales during recent heatwaves
Read more: Almost 3,000 excess deaths estimated in England and Wales during recent heatwavesPublic protecting themselves against the direct sun A new combined report from Imperial College London, the Met Office and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine estimated that more than 2,700 people died from heat-related causes in the recent May and June heatwaves. The report states that almost half of these (42%) died as…
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Fossil fuel emissions have worsened European heatwaves
Read more: Fossil fuel emissions have worsened European heatwavesClimate change unequivocally to blame for record-shattering European heatwave The extreme June heat currently breaking records across Western Europe would have been impossible just a few decades ago according to a rapid attribution analysis by World Weather Attribution (WWA). WWA scientists used both observed and forecast temperature data to analyse the hottest three-day period across…
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