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In 2016, the United States Environmental Protection Agency released an assessment of the effect of climate change on Alabama, assessing various likely outcomes, noting that "[c]hanging the climate is likely to increase damages from tropical storms, reduce crop yields, harm livestock, increase the number of unpleasantly hot days, and increase the risk of heat stroke and other heat-related ...
The Environmental Protection Agency has tracked heat-related deaths in the country since 1979, and it’s estimated that more than 600 people in the country are killed by extreme heat every year ...
The heat-related death rate in the U.S. (heat being either an underlying or a contributing cause) has increased since the mid 2010s. [4] Between 1979 and 2014, the death rate as a direct result of exposure to heat (underlying cause of death) generally hovered around 0.5 to 1 deaths per million people, with spikes in certain years.
The heat wave was responsible for 18 other deaths, including 12 in Maricopa County, Arizona and one at Badlands National Park. [30] Witchita Falls hit 115 °F (46 °C) on July 20, a record for July, while on that day Oklahoma also reached that mark. Oklahoma City set a monthly record high of 110 °F (43 °C). [31]
From 1999-2023, the Journal of American Medical Association recorded 21,518 deaths where heat was either the underlying cause or the contributing cause of death, likely an underestimation, they say.
That heat-related death rate has increased dramatically compared to the early 2000s, regardless of age or population size. The upward trajectory appears to be sharpening recently. In 2022, 1,722 ...
Beginning in March 2024, severe heat waves impacted Mexico, the Southern and Western United States, and Central America, leading to dozens of broken temperature records, [1] mass deaths of animals from several threatened species, water shortages requiring rationing, [2] increased forest fires, and over 155 deaths in Mexico with 2,567 people suffering from heat-related ailments. [3]
In 2023, 2,325 heat-related deaths were reported in the U.S., compared to just 311 in 2004. Researchers also found that heat-related deaths have more than doubled since 1999, a trend they say is ...