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Climate Change’s Toll in Europe This Summer: Thousands of Extra Deaths

Three times as many people in cities and towns died from severe heat as would have done in a world without human-caused warming, scientists said.

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A tourist outside the Acropolis in Athens in July.
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Extreme Heat Spurs New Laws Aimed at Protecting Workers Worldwide

Governments around the world are enacting measures to try to protect workers from the dangers of heat stress. They’re barely keeping up with the risks.

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A construction worker in Boston in July, when temperatures were in the 90s. Boston passed a law this summer requiring city projects to have a “heat illness prevention plan.”
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