Mortality impacts of the most extreme heat events

T Matthews, C Raymond, J Foster… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2025 - nature.com
Extreme heat threatens human life, evidenced by> 260,000 heat-related fatalities collectively
in the deadliest events since 2000. In this Review, we link physical climate science with heat …

Quantifying heat exposure and its related mortality in Rio de Janeiro City: evidence to support Rio's recent heat protocol

JH Araujo Morais, D Medeiros de Oliveira e Cruz… - medRxiv, 2025 - medrxiv.org
Under a climate change scenario, extreme heat episodes show an increase in frequency
and intensity, with a scaling impact in Latin American cities. Recently, Rio de Janeiro City …