The summer heat killed about 50 thousand people in Europe.

The summer heat killed about 50 thousand people in Europe.

According to estimates by British researchers, the heat of the summer of 2026 in European cities killed about 50,000 people; Based on this, about 65% of these deaths are related to climate change caused by human activity. This summer was the deadliest in terms of heat-related deaths.

Estimates show that of a total of 50,391 heat-related deaths in 854 urban areas in Europe, 32,619 cases were related to human-caused heating. These statistics were announced by researchers from Imperial College London and the London School of Health and Tropical Medicine.