Europe’s deadliest summer in 26 years leaves 50,000 dead, study estimates

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A study estimates that Europe experienced about 50,000 heat-related deaths during its deadliest summer in 26 years. Researchers attribute roughly two-thirds of those deaths to fossil fuel-driven climate change across 854 cities in 30 countries.

Scientists estimate that fossil fuel-driven climate change contributed to about two-thirds of heat-related deaths across 854 cities in 30 European countries.