A Monash-led study—the first to globally map heat wave-related mortality over a three-decade period from 1990 to 2019—has found that an additional 153,000+ deaths per warm season were ...

In 2020, researchers studying common murre carcasses concluded the most likely cause of death was starvation due to the impact of the marine heat wave. At that time, they estimated the death toll ...

Oregon health officials said more than 60 deaths have been tied to the heat, with the state’s largest county, Multnomah, blaming the weather for 45 deaths since the heat wave began Friday.

A heat wave in the southern part of the Canadian province of Quebec has been linked to 54 deaths, officials say. The sweltering weather began last Friday with temperatures hitting 35C (95F), high ...

Children cool off with the water to the fountain during a heat wave in Pamplona, northern Spain ... southern Spain and Greece should see massive increases in the rate of heat deaths due to climate ...

Heat-related deaths are expected to climb throughout Europe this century due to climate change, according to study findings.

Heat is the number one weather-related killer. Heat kills by pushing the human body beyond its limits. In extreme heat and high humidity, evaporation is slowed and the body must work extra hard to ...

With heat indices climbing into the triple digits in cattle feeding areas, there have been some accounts of death losses ... continue to grow as the heat wave persists. Cattle losses like these ...

Cataloguing heat-related deaths is difficult ... Some Indian cities are taking action. After a heat wave killed more than 1,300 people in 2010, Ahmedabad developed one of the country’s first ...

The number of heat-related deaths of people over 65 increased by ... First, the country suffered a record-breaking heat wave beginning in March. Fires rampaged through its forests.

Most human deaths, however, occurred during the preceding heat wave—78 lives were lost to ... Hospitals, meanwhile, were facing a rise in heat-related admissions. Some doctors broke ranks ...