This year’s El Niño-driven heat could cause nearly half a million more deaths, group says
This year’s powerful El Niño and the record global heat it’s driving, along with severe droughts, wildfires and shrinking water supplies, could lead to nearly half a million more deaths worldwide by the end of February, according to a research report released Wednesday (September 23, 2026). The grim warning by the University of Chicago-based Climate…