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How Extreme Heat Is Testing the Human Body’s Limits
Extreme heat is becoming more frequent and intense due to climate change, testing the limits of the human body. Thousands of people across the world die each year from excessively high temperatures.
A failure to mitigate global warming could result in more than 5.8 million extra heat-related deaths across European cities by the end of the century, according to a study published in Nature Medicine. That’s equivalent to roughly twice the current population of Rome.