Paris/Stockholm: More than 60,000 people died from heat in Europe last year Record-breaking summerA benchmark study said Monday in the latest warnings on continental climate change.
With Europe heating twice the global average, Spanish researchers believe emergency alert systems can help alert vulnerable people, especially older people with dangerous heat waves.
“Europe has experienced an unusual experience fatal In the summer of 2024, there were more than 60,000 heat-related deaths, bringing the total burden over the past three summers to more than 181,000. ” Natural Medicine.
Researchers at the Barcelona Institute of Global Health (Isglobal) reached this figure by analyzing mortality data in 32 European countries covering a population of 539 million. Number of deaths Last year’s Summer – the hottest record in history in Europe and the world – is estimated to be 62,775.
This is 25% higher than the 2023 summary estimate of 50,798, according to the new revised figures for the study. It is still below the 2022 charges or 67,873. However, this research kid has several sources of uncertainty, meaning these are not “final and exact” numbers.
Experts say
Given this uncertainty, the 2024 study gives a broader range of estimates of 35.00 to 85,000 deaths. It is difficult to determine how many people were killed by rising temperatures, as heat is rarely recorded as a cause of death.
In addition to directly creating direct effects such as heat storm and dehydration, calories also lead to a wide range of fatal health problems, including heart attacks, strokes, and respiratory illnesses.
Italy was the country with the most heat deaths last summer, followed by 19,000, followed by Spain and Germany, both with more than 6,000, according to the study.
Greece has the highest rate when considering the size of the country’s population, with 574 deaths per million population, followed by Bulgaria and Serbia.
Glacier melting
Eight out of 277 glaciers in Sweden melt The head of the Tafara Research Station in northern Sweden said on Monday that it will be extinct in 2024 due to global warming. Another 30 glaciers are in danger, said Nina Kirchner, a professor of glacier science.
Extinct glaciers “will not come back throughout our lives, rather than global warming continue to exist,” she said. Kirchner and her colleagues are located at Tarfala Research Station near Sweden’s highest peak, Kebnekai, and study satellite images of the country’s glaciers every year to track its development.
“In early 2025, when we sat down for the 2024 update to see when the glacier was in the smallest state, we couldn’t find eight glaciers on the satellite image,” she said. “At first we thought we were doing something wrong or missing something.”
The team carefully examined their data and concluded that “eight have disappeared.” Eight are the northernmost glaciers in Sweden, Cunujokeln in Vadvetjakka National Park.
Posted in Dawn on September 23, 2025
