Urban overheating is documented for more than 400 major cities in the world. Numerous
experimental data show that the magnitude of the average temperature increase may …

Recent accelerated climate change has exacerbated existing environmental problems in the
Mediterranean Basin that are caused by the combination of changes in land use, increasing …

Over 70,000 excess deaths occurred in Europe during the summer of 2003. The resulting
societal awareness led to the design and implementation of adaptation strategies to protect …

Comparing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic between countries or across time is
difficult because the reported numbers of cases and deaths can be strongly affected by …

In June 2021, western North America experienced a record-breaking heat wave outside the
distribution of previously observed temperatures. While it is clear that the event was extreme …

Heatwaves are becoming more frequent under climate change and can lead to thousands of
excess deaths. Adaptation to extreme weather events often occurs in response to an event …

Over the last few years, methods have been developed to answer questions on the effect of
global warming on recent extreme events. Many “event attribution” studies have now been …

The heat increase caused by climate change has worsened the urban heat environment and
damaged human health, which has led to heat-related mortality. One of the most important …

Two extreme heatwaves hit Western Europe in the summer of 2019, with historical records
broken by more than a degree in many locations, and significant societal impacts, including …

Executive summary The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been
formed to map out the impacts of climate change, and the necessary policy responses, in …