Extreme heatwaves across Spain caused more than 1,000 deaths - Spain has been hit by extreme heat in recent weeks with temperatures often topping 40 degrees Celsius ...

(Amends number of deaths in same period last year to 114 (not 70) in paragraph 5 following revised ministry statement) MADRID (Reuters) -High temperatures caused 1,180 deaths in Spain in the past two ...

These scenes are not mere statistics; they are tears in our shared fabric of civilisation. Hospitals have been overwhelmed, ...

Two people are found dead by firefighters in Spain's Catalonia region, with heat-related fatalities in France and Italy.

There have been 1,180 deaths recorded across the country over the past two months, a period marked by intense heatwaves.

France reports two deaths in heatwave, 300 taken to hospital Italy issues red alerts in 18 cities; two men die on beach Swiss reactor shut down due to high river-water temperatures Four die in ...

A ‘silent killer’, the June to July heatwave is estimated to have claimed many more lives than the Valencia floods last year.

Of the 2,300 people estimated to have died during this period, 1,500 deaths were linked to climate change, which made the heatwave more severe, according to the study conducted by scientists at ...

Last year, there were 2,032 deaths attributable to heat in Spain, according to the Health Ministry. That number was still lower than heat-linked fatalities in 2023 and 2022.

Several European regions had their highest temperatures on the last day of June, as a heatwave continues into July.

Spain 's Environment Ministry has reported a stark increase in heat -related fatalities, with 1,180 deaths recorded across the country over the past two months, a period marked by intense heatwaves.

COPENHAGEN/BRUSSELS (Reuters) -Around 2,300 people died of heat-related causes across 12 European cities during the severe heatwave that ended last week, according to a rapid scientific analysis ...