'Extreme heat reduction urgently needed to prevent unnecessary deaths'
August 20, 2021 20:49 ISTAccording to a new Global Burden of Disease modeling study, also published in The Lancet, more than 356,000 deaths in 2019 were related to heat, and that number is expected to grow as temperatures rise worldwide. However, many heat-related deaths are preventable by mitigating climate change and reducing exposure to extreme heat, the researchers said.