extreme heat

Super El Nino could cause 451,000 excess deaths, researchers warn

This year's powerful El Niño could lead to as many as 451,000 additional heat-related deaths worldwide over the nine months from June 2026 through February 2027, according to a report released Wednesday by the University of Chicago's Climate Impact Lab.…

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Study finds elderly heat risks far greater than estimated

The health threat that rising temperatures pose to older people has been "dramatically underestimated," according to a modeling study published Tuesday in The Lancet Planetary Health by researchers at Stanford University.

North Asia braces for more extreme heat as LNG squeeze tightens

Extreme heat is tightening its grip across North Asia just as geopolitical disruptions squeeze the region's lifeline of liquefied natural gas, creating what energy analysts warn is a dangerous peak-summer convergence for fuel-importing economies.

Extreme heat, not lack of rain, now drives Europe’s droughts, study finds

Human-caused climate change is intensifying drought across Europe not by reducing rainfall but by driving extreme heat that evaporates water from soils, lakes, and rivers at unprecedented rates, according to an analysis published Thursday by the World Weather Attribution group.