About 50 thousand people died in the summer because of unusual heat in Europe.

About 50 thousand people died in the summer because of unusual heat in Europe.

In the summer of 2026, more than 50,000 people died as a result of the effects of extreme heat in nearly 900 European cities, according to a report by the Grantham Institute of Imperial College London. "We estimate there were 50,391 heat-related 'excess deaths' in 854 cities this summer," the report said.