MAY AND JUNE HEATWAVES KILLED ABOUT 2,700 PEOPLE IN ENGLAND AND WALES, DATA SUGGESTS

1. WHAT HAPPENED

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• The Guardian: Extreme heat led to 440 deaths a day during June peak, say scientists, with climate crisis ramping up temperatures The heatwave that affected England and Wales in June killed about 440 people a day during its three-day…
• The Guardian: Across the whole of the June heatwave, plus the one in May, about 2,700 people lost their lives prematurely.
• The Guardian: The data starkly illustrates the danger of extreme heat, which is being supercharged by the climate crisis.
• BBC News: Most deaths will have occurred in the June heatwave, experts say, when a rare red heat alert was issued.
• The Guardian: US military says it hit dozens of Iranian sites in strikes on Monday while UN chief warns that a return to full-scale fighting would be ‘catastrophic’ US launches new attack wave on Iran as Tehran says diplomacy has…

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