Spain records more than 1,000 excess deaths due to June heatwave
ONP Summary
Spain recorded over 1,000 excess deaths in June 2026 attributable to heat, more than double the 407 deaths recorded in June 2025. The month was the country's second-hottest June on record, with average temperatures running 1.6 to 3.2 degrees Celsius above normal and a five-day heatwave bringing temperatures above 40°C. The first six months of 2026 were Spain's warmest January-to-June period in recorded history.
Moderate: Moderate outlets emphasize climate change's role in the extreme heat, with scientists attributing the heatwave to global warming and stating such conditions would have been virtually impossible without it.
Conservative: Conservative outlets report the death toll and temperature records as factual statistics without discussing climate change as a contributing factor.
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Spain has attributed 1,028 excess deaths to a blistering heatwave that hit Europe last week – a figure more than double the number of heat-related deaths recorded the previous year. ...