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[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/23/rising-temperatures-linked-to-increased-suicide-rates Rising Temps linked to Suicides (Climate Change) 7/2018] | [https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2018/jul/23/rising-temperatures-linked-to-increased-suicide-rates Rising Temps linked to Suicides (Climate Change) 7/2018] | ||
The links between mental health and global warming have not been widely researched but the new work analysed temperature and suicides across the US and Mexico in recent decades. It found that the rate of suicide rose by 0.7% in the US and by 2.1% in Mexico when the average monthly temperature rose by 1C. | The links between mental health and global warming have not been widely researched but the new work analysed temperature and suicides across the US and Mexico in recent decades. It found that the rate of suicide rose by 0.7% in the US and by 2.1% in Mexico when the average monthly temperature rose by 1C. | ||
=====Deadly Heat Waves Could Endanger 74% of Mankind by 2100, Study Says===== | |||
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/19062017/heat-waves-world-population-risk-endangered-climate-change-study Inside Climate News 6/19/2017] | |||
A new online tool explores the number of days per year in places worldwide when heat is likely to exceed a deadly threshold if nothing is done about climate change. | |||
