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Europe is estimated to have witnessed more than 60,000 heat-attributable deaths in the summer of 2022, a new research published in the journal Nature Medicine said.
The 2022 summer was the hottest one ever to be recorded in the region and was characterised by an intense series of record-breaking heat waves, droughts and forest fires.
While unusually high excess mortality was reported for that period by the European statistical office (Eurostat), this research, led by the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Spain, in collaboration with the French National Institute of Health (Inserm), quantified the fraction of that mortality attributable to heat.
