May 9, 2024 - During the 2022 summer, Europe experienced heatwaves with record temperatures, and a study has argued that they caused about 62,000 deaths between 30 May and 4 September. The total number of excess deaths during the same period was about 137,000, ...

August 20, 2025 - Under a 3-degree Celsius global ... heat waves. Masselot et al. (2025) show that across 854 European cities, heat-related deaths are projected to increase faster than any reduction in cold-related mortality.

October 24, 2023 - This ecological analysis using the Eurostat database estimated that summer 2022, the hottest summer on record, was associated with over 61,000 heat-related deaths across 35 countries in Europe, with the highest mortality rates in countries near ...

July 12, 2023 - Heat waves in Europe killed more than 61,000 people — most of them women — last summer, according to an estimate published in the journal Nature on Monday. The summer of 2022 was the continent's hottest on record.

December 4, 2025 - In late 2023, a study published by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health estimated that there were over 70,000 heat-related deaths across Europe during the heatwave, a significant increase from earlier estimates.

September 17, 2025 - “The causal chain from fossil ... we had not continued to burn fossil fuels over the last decades, most of the estimated 24,400 people in Europe wouldn’t have died this summer.”...

October 29, 2024 - Researchers found 38,000 fewer people – 10 times number of murders – would have died if atmosphere was not clogged with greenhouse pollutants ... Climate breakdown caused more than half of the 68,000 heat deaths during the scorching European ...

Data from the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) show how unusually intense and widespread the heatwaves across Europe this summer have been. Together with prolonged dry periods, they have contributed to higher-than-average wildfire activity and severe droughts; and several countries have reported thousands of additional deaths.

We analyzed the Eurostat mortality database, which includes 45,184,044 counts of death from 823 contiguous regions in 35 European countries, representing the whole population of over 543 million people.

October 29, 2024 - The record-breaking temperatures in Europe during the 2022 summer were associated with over 60,000 heat-related deaths. By combining epidemiological models with detection and attribution techniques, we attribute half of this mortality burden ...

November 14, 2025 - The study replicates the methodology used last year in another paper published in Nature Medicine, which estimated that heat caused more than 60,000 deaths during the summer of 2022, which represented the highest heat related mortality burden ...

July 9, 2025 - Researchers from European health institutes reported in 2023 that as many as 61,000 people may have died in Europe's sweltering heatwaves in 2022, according to new research, suggesting countries' heat preparedness efforts are falling fatally short.

July 17, 2023 - Francisco de Souza, Hugo. (2023, July 17). Impact of the 2022 European heat wave: Over 60,000 deaths recorded. News-Medical.

November 28, 2023 - The highest temperature anomalies were recorded during the hottest month, from mid-July to mid-August. This coincidence magnified, according to the researchers, heat-related mortality, causing 38,881 deaths between 11 July and 14 August.

Extreme heat kills at least 2,300 in European cities, study estimates ... Researchers estimate there were 2,305 excess heat-related deaths during the heat wave from June 23 to July 2.

July 10, 2023 - Wildfires in northwestern Spain during a heat wave in July 2022. Spain was among the European countries with the highest heat-related death rates last summer.Credit...Emilio Fraile/Europa Press, via Associated Press

August 20, 2024 - Europe counted 47,690 excess deaths due to heat in 2023, estimated a new study in Nature Medicine. This is the second highest heat-related mortality burden since 2015, only surpassed by 2022 (over 60,000 estimated deaths). Despite this being a high number of mostly avoidable deaths, the ...

October 1, 2024 - Particularly in 2022, Europe was severely affected by unprecedented HWs, which caused approximately 61,672 deaths and 11,324 deaths in Europe and Spain, respectively. In this study, we investigate the mechanisms of the HWs in southwestern Europe ...

November 19, 2025 - Over the past few decades, summer heatwaves in Europe have grown increasingly severe, with temperatures rising at twice the global average. The deadly 2003 heatwave remains deeply unsettling: it directly caused approximately 30 000 deaths and resulted in agricultural losses in Europe of up to €13 billion.

July 9, 2025 - Researchers from European health institutes reported in 2023 that as many as 61,000 people may have died in Europe's sweltering heatwaves in 2022, according to new research, suggesting countries' heat preparedness efforts are falling fatally short.