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Scientists demand climate change be declared a global health emergency

Nearly 150 researchers from more than 30 countries have called on the WHO and the UN to officially recognize climate change as a global health emergency. The basis is the annual Lancet Countdown report: mortality from heat, drought and food insecurity is rising faster than before the Paris Agreement. Nearly 150 researchers from more than 30 countries have called on the WHO and the UN to officially recognize climate change as a global health emergency. The basis is the annual Lancet Countdown report: deaths from heat, drought and food insecurity are rising faster than before the Paris Agreement.

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Summer 2026 became Europe's deadliest: more than 50 thousand excess deaths from heat

A study by Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine estimates the number of excess heat-related deaths in summer 2026 across 854 cities in 30 European countries at approximately 50,391 — a record over 26 years of observations. About two-thirds of the cases are attributed by the authors to anthropogenic climate change. The highest death tolls were in Italy, France, Spain, Germany and the United Kingdom.

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