<p>People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll</p><p>Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer, new <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/publications/all-publications/heat-related-urban-mortality-attributable-to-human-induced-climate-change-in-europe-in-summer-2026.php">research</a> suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths.</p><p>Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives in urban areas, the researchers found. Hot days pushed vulnerable bodies into overdrive and warm nights prevented them from recovering.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/23/heat-killed-staggering-50000-people-european-cities-this-summer-experts">Continue reading...</a>
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Heat killed ‘staggering’ 50,000 people in Europe’s cities this summer, scientists warn
<p>People succumbed to heat at highest rates in Malta, Italy and Hungary, with health issues, loneliness and poverty exacerbating toll</p><p>Heat killed a record 50,000 people in European cities this summer, new <a href="https://www.imperial.ac.uk/grantham/publications/all-publications/heat-related-urban-mortality-attributable-to-human-induced-climate-change-in-europe-in-summer-2026.php">research</a> suggests, with scientists blaming climate breakdown for two in every three of the deaths.</p><p>Morgues and funeral homes filled with bodies from June to August as the heat added by planet-baking pollution cut short an extra 32,000 lives in urban areas, the researchers found. Hot days pushed vulnerable bodies into overdrive and warm nights prevented them from recovering.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/oct/23/heat-killed-staggering-50000-people-european-cities-this-summer-experts">Continue reading...</a>