Climate change behind global heat deaths

By Seth Borenstein
Updated June 1 2021 - 1:34pm, first published 1:30pm
Heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures, new research shows.
Heat death numbers will grow exponentially with rising temperatures, new research shows.

More than a third of the world's annual heat deaths are due directly to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change.

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