For how we live.
A 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.
A 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.
February in Cortina has warmed 3.6°C since it last hosted in 1956. The health question in a warming winter is not comfort — it is unstable snow, artificial surfaces and where sport can safely be held.