NBC | Wednesday, July 9, 2025 
European Union rebuffs Trump’s designs on Greenland takeover

LONDON — Humanity’s burning of fossil fuels directly led to the deaths of at least 1,500 people in a European heat wave last week, a study published Wednesday said. While temperatures soared across the United States, Europe was also subjected to its own “heat dome” in late June and early July. England and Spain recorded their hottest June on record, schools closed across France and wildfires raged in Sardinia. Around 2,300 people died across 12 European cities, including London, Paris, Barcelona and Rome, according to the study by Imperial College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Of these, around two-thirds — or 1,500 deaths — can be attributed to global warming, 88% of whom were over age 65, the study said. The scientists took the estimated deaths for last week’s heat wave and compared them with the expected deaths in a computer-simulated heat wave based on a world without human-made global warming. While it is not a peer-reviewed study, it uses peer-reviewed methods to reach its conclusions. “Heat waves don’t leave a trail of destruction like wildfires or storms,” Gary Konstantinoudis, a biostatistician at Imperial College and co-author of the study, said in a video message accompanying the research. “This is why heat waves are known as silent killers: Most heat wave deaths happen in homes and hospitals, out of public view and are rarely reported.” – Read more