Estimated 16,500 climate change deaths during Europe summer: study | International

PARIS, Sept 17, 2025 (BSS/AFP) - Scientists estimated Wednesday that rising temperatures from human-caused climate change were responsible for roughly 16,500 deaths in European cities this summer, using modelling to project the toll before official data is released. The rapidly-produced study is the latest effort by climate and health researchers to quickly link the death toll during heatwaves to global warming -- without waiting months or years to be published in a peer-reviewed journal. The estimated deaths were not actually recorded in the European cities, but instead were a projection based on methods such as modelling used in previously peer-reviewed studies. Death tolls during heatwaves are thought to be vastly underestimated because the causes of death recorded in hospitals are...