{"id":272450,"date":"2026-06-10T11:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T07:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=272450"},"modified":"2026-06-10T14:20:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-10T10:20:16","slug":"48c-and-above-extreme-heatwaves-in-india-are-causing-tens-of-thousands-of-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/272450\/","title":{"rendered":"48\u00b0C and above: Extreme heatwaves in India are causing tens of thousands of deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

India has been sweltering through a baking hot summer, with temperatures in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh creeping past 48°C in May, Euronews<\/a> writes.<\/p>\n

A recent study underlines the dangers of these worsening highs. It estimates that a single day of extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally in India.<\/p>\n

A five-day heatwave is linked to nearly 30,000 extra deaths, according to the paper published in the Frontiers in Environmental Health journal last month.<\/p>\n

These heatwaves are becoming more frequent, longer and more intense as climate change – driven by the burning of fossil fuels – pushes global temperatures higher. The past 11 years, from 2015 to 2025, were the hottest on record, according to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

India has been sweltering through a baking hot summer, with temperatures in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh creeping past 48°C in May, Euronews writes. A recent study underlines the dangers of these worsening highs. It estimates that a single day of extreme heat causes approximately 3,400 excess deaths nationally in India. A five-day heatwave […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":272324,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,43,98,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-world","category-other-en","category-society"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272450","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":272451,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272450\/revisions\/272451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}