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Spanish cities and climate change: increasing heat deaths and missing trees
The Lancet Countdown report on health and climate change alerts to the impact of global warming and estimates that in 2024 there were more than 62,000 deaths attributable to heat in EuropeThe heat triggers deaths in Spain to unprecedented figures and threatens the health system The widespread rise in temperatures in the last decade has been accompanied by more deaths attributable to heat.The annual mortality linked to this cause has gone from an…
The 2026 Lancet Countdown report reveals that climate change has direct consequences for public health in European cities The article Ourense Lugo and Santiago, the Galician cities with the most deaths from heat in the last decade was first published in GCiencia.
Heat-related mortality in Spanish cities increased by 95.4% between 2015 and 2024 compared to the decade 1991-2000 and Castellón de la Plana leads this growth with an increase of 563.5%, going from 25.7 deaths per million inhabitants in the decade 1991-2000 to 168.1 between 2015 and 2024. In second place is Torrevieja (with an increase of 529.3%) and Sagunto follows closely behind (with 323.2%). Alicante and Benidorm are also among the top 20 ci…
Heat deaths in Spain have skyrocketed 95.4% on average between the end of the 20th century and 2024, according to an international report published by ‘The Lancet’. In the case of Catalonia, all its provincial capitals have increased by more than 100% the number of deaths for this reason. Valencian Community, Balearic Islands and the two castillas also appear with similar increases.
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