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More than one-third of heat deaths blamed on climate change

Warming resulting from human activities accounts for a high percentage of heat-related deaths, especially in southern Asia and South America.
A woman wearing a protective face mask splashes her hands in a jet of water

A pedestrian seeks relief from searing temperatures in Spain, where a high proportion of heat-related deaths have been linked to climate change. Credit: SALAS/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock

Researchers have attributed 37% of deaths related to heat exposure around the world between 1991 and 2018 to global warming caused by humans.

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Nature 594, 153 (2021)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-021-01475-0

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