Extreme heat could kill as many as 2.3 million people in Europe unless countries get better at cutting emissions.

Heat-related deaths are expected to climb throughout Europe this century due to climate change, according to study findings.

Our results stress the urgent need to aggressively pursue both climate change mitigation and adaptation to increased heat,' said lead author Dr Pierre Masselot. 'This is especially critical in the ...

The drop in cold deaths up north are in places not as populated as places further south, where the heat really kicks in and hurts, Masselot said. “The Mediterranean is a so-called climate ...

“We estimate a slight net decrease, but it’s very small compared to the big increase we could see in the Mediterranean region,” says Pierre Masselot at the London School of Hygiene ...

“We would need a massive adaptation in order to compensate for the increase in temperature,” says study co-author Pierre Masselot, a statistician and environmental epidemiologist at the London ...