Europe’s brutally hot summer led to more than 50,000 heat deaths in urban areas alone
The summer of 2026 was brutally hot across Europe, with five successive heat waves causing record-high temperatures across the continent. Those extremes likely led to more than 50,000 excess deaths in urban areas alone, according to a new estimate. And some 32,000 of those deaths, or nearly t
<p>The summer of 2026 was brutally hot across Europe, with five successive heat waves causing record-high temperatures across the continent.
Those extremes likely led to more than 50,000 excess deaths in urban areas alone, according to a new estimate.
And some 32,000 of those deaths, or nearly t</p>