Climate Deadliest Heat Year
Jessie Fuentes, who works providing people with canoes and kayaks, walks along the Rio Grande with the sun pushing the temperature into the 90s on July 6. The death certificates of more than 2,300 people who died in the United States last summer mention the effects of excessive heat, the highest number in 45 years of records.
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An analysis of federal data shows that about 2,300 people in the United States died in the summer of 2023 with their death certificates mentioning the effects of excessive heat.
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