image: Number of heat-related deaths in an extremely hot year in a 3°C warmer world and the number of deaths that could be avoided in a 1.5°C or 2°C world in 15 U.S. cities. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the June 5th, 2019, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by Y.T.E. Lo at University of Bristol in Bristol, UK, and colleagues was titled, "Increasing mitigation ambition to meet the Paris Agreement's temperature goal avoids substantial heat-related mortality in U.S. cities." view more
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