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How climate change is hitting Europe: three graphics reveal health impacts

A growing body of research reveals the deaths and diseases linked to rising temperatures across the continent.
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  1. Carissa Wong

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Global warming is costing lives, deepening health inequality and driving the spread of disease-carrying ticks and parasites across Europe, according to a major report.

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Nature 630, 800-801 (2024)

doi: https://doi.org/10.1038/d41586-024-02006-3

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