Kathmandu, Oct. 23 -- More than 50,000 people are estimated to have died from heat in European cities during the summer of 2026, making it the region's deadliest summer in 26 years, according to a new analysis. About two-thirds of the deaths have been attributed to human-induced climate change driven by fossil fuel pollution.

The findings, reported by CNN, estimate that 50,391 heat-related deaths occurred across 854 cities in 30 European countries between June and August. More than 32,600 of those deaths were estimated to be attributable to climate change. The cities covered by the analysis account for about 40 percent of the population of the countries studied.

The findings were published in two peer-reviewed papers in the journal Natu...