{"id":93351,"date":"2026-08-26T05:21:54","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:21:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=93351"},"modified":"2026-08-26T05:21:54","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T05:21:54","slug":"at-least-35000-excess-deaths-recorded-in-europes-back-to-back-heatwaves","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/at-least-35000-excess-deaths-recorded-in-europes-back-to-back-heatwaves\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 35,000 excess deaths recorded in Europe\u2019s back-to-back heatwaves"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> < 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/img-s-msn-com.akamaized.net\/tenant\/amp\/entityid\/AA2aQZAS.img?w=768&h=615&m=6\" alt=\"A woman dips her head in the lion fountain in Piazza del Popolo in Rome in an attempt to cool down on a scorching August day. Photograph: Amer Ghazzal\/Shutterstock\" width=\"641\" height=\"513\" \/><\/p>\n<p>At least 35,000 more people died during Europe\u2019s four record-breaking, back-to-back heatwaves this summer than would normally be expected, according to incomplete figures from barely half the continent.\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-gb\/weather\/general\/at-least-35-000-excess-deaths-recorded-in-europe-s-back-to-back-heatwaves\/ar-AA2aRvZX?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=6a8daf7e2ad84e73badec17b073ea29d&ei=15\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>At least 35,000 more people died during Europe\u2019s four record-breaking, back-to-back heatwaves this summer than would normally be expected, according to incomplete&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":91034,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/heat1.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=93351"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93351\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93352,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93351\/revisions\/93352"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=93351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=93351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=93351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}