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Global population living with extreme heat expected to double by 2050
- January 31, 2026 at 8:30 PM
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A new University of Oxford study finds that almost half of the global population (3.79 billion) will be living with extreme heat by 2050 if the world reaches 2.0°C of global warming above pre-industrial levels—a scenario that climate scientists see as increasingly likely.
Originally published at Phys.org