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Rachel Treisman

Heat waves in Europe killed more than 61,600 people last summer, a study estimates

A girl refills her bottle with water from the "Fontana della Barcaccia" fountain in Rome in during the heat wave of July 2022. (Andreas Solaro/AFP via Getty Images)

Heat waves in Europe killed more than 61,000 people — most of them women — last summer, according to an estimate published in the journal Nature on Monday.

The summer of 2022 was the continent's hottest on record. Officials tallied thousands of "excess deaths" during that period, and this study specifically analyzes how many were a result of the heat.

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