Heat-induced losses

Not all loss can or should be measured in money. Affected people still need funding and services to recover. This could mean helping children return to school, offer counselling, help displaced communities stay connected and maintain cultural practices.

This report tracks extreme weather in India from January to September 2026, finding events on 251 of 273 days and 3,220 deaths. It records losses to crops, homes and livestock and urges a shift from disaster response to risk reduction and resilience.

Heat-related deaths in Europe’s urban areas exceeded 50,000 in the summer of 2026. More than 32,000 of those deaths were attributable to human-caused global warming, driven by the burning of fossil fuels, according to studies published in Nature Health.

Research published in the Journal of Experimental Botany reveals that wheat crops are more sensitive to grain yield losses from heat waves that occur before reaching their flowering stage than those occurring later.

This scoping review of 176 studies from 41 countries found that heatwave-associated deaths are rarely coded as direct heat-related, while surveillance systems remain fragmented, highlighting the need for standardized and integrated monitoring.

Heat-related deaths look less dramatic than other climate disasters, yet they are far more frequent. This article looks into why Europe’s deadliest climate hazard remains its least visible one.

HERA’s first-of-its-kind tool and analysis estimates how extreme heat affects economic output and mortality in cities around the world. It shows the likely impact on workers today and how those impacts could grow by 2050.

This report outlines the geography and scale of household energy burden across the United States of America, with particular attention to the impacts of extreme heat and cooling costs.