THE HEAT MAPResearchers modelled 854 European cities under the climate that exists and the one that would have existed without human warming. The attributable share rose from 45% to 64%.
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THE HEAT MAPMore than 2,700 people died in England and Wales during the May and June heatwaves. An attribution study assigns roughly 42% of those deaths to warming.
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THE HEAT MAPMaricopa County runs some of the most detailed heat mortality surveillance in the US. A distributed lag model applied to the same five years put the toll far higher — and the gap is the method, not a scandal.
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An analysis of global temperature data from 1950 to 2024 finds the share of the world's population facing dangerous heat-stress days has climbed sharply since the 1970s, summarized this month in JAMA.
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As the 2026 World Cup opens, researchers point to last year's Club World Cup as a preview: 31 of 57 matches were played at heat levels guidelines say should have stopped play.
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ANALYSISA global estimate across 8,919 urban areas finds both numbers are true at once — and that the cooling lands hardest in the places that need it least.
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THE HEAT MAPAn analysis of nearly 30 years of confirmed heat deaths finds many occurred well under standard alert thresholds, and that humidity-based measures may track risk more consistently.
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THE HEAT MAPA meta-analysis spanning two decades of research found extreme cold carried a higher relative risk of death than extreme heat or heatwaves — even as warming shifts public attention toward summer temperatures.
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ANALYSISA 14-year national analysis finds temperature-related death rates rising fastest in the group that started highest — and the same pattern in cold deaths, which fell for everyone else.
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THE HEAT MAPA rapid attribution study finds human-caused warming made this month's record Southwest heat wave far more likely, and doctors warn the early timing caught people unacclimatized.
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ANALYSISPlay was suspended on outside courts on Saturday when the tournament's five-point Heat Stress Scale maxed out. A ball kid collapsed during a match the same day. The threshold is set on physiology, not air temperature.
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THE HEAT MAPAcross 11 surveillance sites in sub-Saharan Africa, nighttime heatwave mortality risk rose between 2005-2010 and 2011-2015 — the opposite of the adaptation trend reported in wealthy countries.
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ANALYSISThe 2025 Lancet Countdown Latin America report tracks 41 indicators across 17 countries. Heat-related deaths are up 103%, and fewer than half the region's governments have finished a vulnerability assessment.
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ANALYSISA 43-year analysis at hourly resolution finds a 3.3% rise in average heat stress exposure duration across districts, with the change varying by time of day, season and region.
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THE HEAT MAPResearchers tested heat-mortality forecasts against the European summers of 2022 and 2023. The skill pattern is not the one a warning system designer would have guessed.
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THE HEAT MAPA 47-prefecture analysis of a decade of heatstroke mortality finds the alert level set at 33C misses almost all of the deaths a warning could plausibly prevent. About 31C would halve them.
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