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Climate change responsible for nearly a third of heat deaths: Study

The study, published in the Nature Climate Change, used information on heat deaths and temperature readings to build computer models that calculated how many deaths could be attributed to climate change

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Human-induced climate change is responsible for nearly a third or 37 per cent of heat deaths in the last three decades, according to a study led by an international team of researchers.

The team including from University of Bern in Switzerland, Emory University in the US looked at data from 732 places in 43 countries between 1991-2018.

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