Originating within the Sahara, a heatwave is sweeping throughout southern Europe, with document temperatures forecast for the Mediterranean area.

The dying toll for the summer time of 2022, the most up to date ever recorded in Europe, used to be greater than 61,000, in step with a learn about revealed on 10 July within the magazine Nature Medication. The primary-of-its-kind learn about used to be collectively carried out through scientists from Inserm (the French Nationwide Institute of Well being) and the Barcelona Institute for International Well being (ISGlobal), who measured mortality without delay because of heatwaves.