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LSHTM
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Climate change-driven summer heat caused 16,500 additional deaths across Europe
September 18, 2025 - Climate change intensified Europe’s summer heat in 2025 and drove an estimated 16,500 additional deaths across 854 cities, according to a new study led by researchers from the London School of Hygiene
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The Guardian
theguardian.com › environment › 2025 › sep › 17 › human-made-global-warming-caused-two-in-three-heat-deaths-in-europe-this-summer-analysis-finds
Human-made global warming ‘caused two in three heat deaths in Europe this summer’ | Extreme heat | The Guardian
September 17, 2025 - Wed 17 Sep 2025 00.00 EDTLast modified on Wed 17 Sep 2025 04.18 EDT · Share · Human-made global heating caused two in every three heat deaths in Europe during this year’s scorching summer, an early analysis of mortality in 854 big cities ...
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Stanford University
news.stanford.edu › stories › 2025 › 11 › heat-waves-europe-climate-change-fatalities-research
Study warns past heat waves would be far more lethal now | Stanford Report
Global average temperatures in ... more than 20,000 people across Europe. This year, 2025, researchers estimated thousands of people may have lost their lives because of extreme heat during the fourth-hottest summer in ...
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Wikipedia
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2025 European heatwaves - Wikipedia
2 days ago - Scientists found that by 18 September, around 16,500 people may have died as a result of climate change during the summer. This is around three times higher than the number of deaths without human-induced climate change (800 deaths).

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Euronews
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Climate change tripled summer heat deaths in Europe, study says
September 17, 2025 - - AP Photo/Andrew Medichini ... Climate change intensified temperatures across Europe this summer, leading to an additional 16,500 deaths, according to leading climate scientists and epidemiologists.
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Eos
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Climate Change May Have Killed 16,469 People in Europe This Summer - Eos
September 17, 2025 - Climate change caused 16,469 deaths in European cities this summer, new research estimates. This summer was the fourth hottest in European history, and its effects on the continent’s population have been widely reported.
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Science Media Centre
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expert reaction to unpublished study looking at climate change-driven heat deaths across Europe | Science Media Centre
Taking the collective expertise of several health experts on board, the study connects excess deaths to this summer’s heat waves across Europe. The team finds that almost 70% of the over 24,000 heat related deaths during the summer of 2025 in Europe – which was the 4th hottest on record ...
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Mongabay
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Extreme heat kills at least 2,300 in European cities, study estimates
July 14, 2025 - Around 2,300 people died in 12 European cities due to an extreme heat wave that hit the region from June 23 to July 2, a rapid scientific analysis has found. Researchers also estimated that roughly 1,500 of those deaths, or 65%, were attributable ...
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POLITICO
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Thousands died from heat made worse by climate change this summer – POLITICO
September 17, 2025 - Climate change reportedly contributed to an estimated 4,597 additional heat-related deaths in Italy and 2,841 in Spain. | Miguel Riopa/AFP via Getty Images · September 17, 2025 3:46 pm CET · By Louise Guillot · BRUSSELS — Climate change ...
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Al Jazeera
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Did climate change cause 16,500 extra deaths in Europe this summer? | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
But Spain bore the brunt of the heat this year with more than 1,100 deaths blamed on a 16-day heatwave in August, according to the Madrid-based Carlos III Health Institute. Elderly people with underlying health conditions were particularly ...
Published   September 17, 2025
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Reuters
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European heatwave caused 2,300 deaths, scientists estimate | Reuters
July 9, 2025 - Of the 2,300 people estimated to have died during this period, 1,500 deaths were linked to climate change, which made the heatwave more severe, according to the study conducted by scientists at Imperial College London and the London School of ...
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NYTimes
nytimes.com › 2025 › 09 › 17 › climate › europe-heat-deaths-climate-change.html
Climate Change’s Toll in Europe This Summer: Thousands of Extra Deaths - The New York Times
September 17, 2025 - 17, 2025 · Severe heat this summer killed three times as many people in European cities as would have died had humans not warmed the planet by burning fossil fuels, scientists said Wednesday.
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Venticool
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“Summer heat deaths in 854 European cities more than tripled due to climate change,” new report warns - Venticool
October 3, 2025 - A new report from the Grantham ... Europe. The analysis, covering 854 European cities, estimates that climate change was responsible for 16,469 additional excess deaths during the summer of 2025....
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European Environment Agency
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Heat | Health effects | European Climate and Health Observatory Climate-ADAPT
According to the evidence base ... global warming levels but by more than 30-fold at 3°C global warming levels. This corresponds to possibly hundreds of thousands of deaths attributable to heat by the end of the century....
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Al Jazeera
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European heatwave caused 2,300 deaths in 10 days, study finds | Climate Crisis News | Al Jazeera
Of the 2,300 people estimated to have died during this period, 1,500 deaths were linked to climate change, which made the heatwave more severe, said the study conducted by more than a dozen researchers from five European institutions in the ...
Published   July 9, 2025
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The Ecologist
theecologist.org › 2025 › sep › 01 › climate-triples-heat-deaths-europe
Climate triples heat deaths in Europe
September 1, 2025 - The study, led by scientists at ... found around 1,500 of the 2,300 estimated heat deaths were the result of climate change – equating to a tripling of the number of deaths in the heatwave due to global warming. Climate breakdown was responsible for an estimated 171 excess deaths in London, 317 in Madrid and 235 in Paris, the study ...
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CNN
cnn.com › 2025 › 07 › 09 › climate › europe-heat-wave-death-toll-global-warming
Extreme heat is a killer. A recent heat wave shows how much more deadly its becoming as humans warm the world | CNN
July 9, 2025 - They found approximately 2,300 people died during ten days of heat across the 12 cities, around 1,500 more than would have died in a world without climate change. In other words, global heating was responsible for 65% of the total death toll.
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Nature
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Future heat-related mortality in Europe driven by compound day-night heatwaves and demographic shifts | Nature Communications
August 11, 2025 - Europe (EU) is divided into four regions: Northern (NEU), Western (WEU), Eastern (EEU) and Southern Europe (SEU), with baseline heat-related excess deaths of 5.46, 19.3, 48.4 and 145.0 per million people, respectively.
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Insurance Journal
insurancejournal.com › news › international › 2025 › 09 › 18 › 839443.htm
Climate Change Led to At Least 16,500 Heat Deaths in Europe This Summer
September 18, 2025 - Climate change fueled scorching summer temperatures that killed an estimated 16,500 people in European cities this summer, pushing overall heat deaths to more than three times what might otherwise have occurred, according to a new study.
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NYTimes
nytimes.com › 2025 › 07 › 09 › climate › europe-heat-waves-deaths.html
Research Suggests Climate Change Added Excess Deaths in European Heat Wave - The New York Times
July 9, 2025 - The analysis found that in the 12 cities, 1,500 of 2,300 estimated heat deaths could be connected to climate change, compared with a toll of roughly 770 without its effects. The researchers noted that the cities in the study represented only ...