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ISABELLA O'MALLEY

Pollution from fossil fuel giants tied to heatwaves that killed thousands, study finds

Fifty-five heatwaves over the past quarter-century would not have happened without human-caused climate change, according to a study published Wednesday.

Planet-warming emissions from 180 major cement, oil and gas producers contributed significantly to all of the heat events considered in the study, which was published in the journal Nature and examined a set of 213 heatwaves from 2000 to 2023.

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