Europe's summer heat wave killed over 50,000 city dwellers, nearly double the toll of 2003 and 2022

Europe's summer heat wave killed more han 50k people in urban areas

A study accepted by Nature Health finds that this summer's heat killed more than 50,000 people across 854 European cities, nearly twice the deaths of the 2003 and 2022 heat waves. Researchers at Imperial College London and LSHTM estimate that about two-thirds of those deaths stem from human-caused global warming, which pushed temperatures up by as much as 2.8°C. People 85 and older accounted for roughly 22,500 deaths, and Southern Europe was hit hardest.