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Evening Standard
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Emily Beament

Deadly climate impact: 2,700 heat-linked deaths in recent heatwaves, experts say

Researchers found that climate change significantly drove up the death toll (PA/Alamy) -

More than 2,700 people died from heat-related causes during May and June’s record hot spells, as climate change makes heatwaves more deadly, experts estimate.

Researchers from Imperial College London, the Met Office, and the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) estimated that there were 2,700 excess deaths in England and Wales over the two heatwaves.

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