{"id":57634,"date":"2025-08-20T20:05:35","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:35:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/?p=57634"},"modified":"2025-08-20T20:05:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T15:35:35","slug":"a-recent-heatwave-in-spain-has-resulted-in-over-1100deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/57634\/a-recent-heatwave-in-spain-has-resulted-in-over-1100deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"A recent heatwave in Spain has resulted in over 1,100deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Officials reported 1,149 excess deaths in Spain from August 3-18 that could be attributed to the scorching temperatures, the public health agency said, according to AFP.<\/p>\n<p>The institute used data from Spain&#8217;s Mortality Monitoring System (MoMo) that was compared to historical trends.<\/p>\n<p>It also incorporates external factors, such as weather data from the national meteorological agency AEMET, to assess likely causes of mortality spikes.<\/p>\n<p>Although MoMo cannot confirm a direct cause between deaths and high temperatures, it provides the most reliable estimate of fatalities in which heat was likely a decisive factor.<\/p>\n<p>For July, the Carlos III institute had attributed 1,060 excess deaths to intense heat, a 57 percent increase over the same period last year.<\/p>\n<p>Climate experts say global warming is driving longer, more intense, and more frequent heat waves around the world.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Officials reported 1,149 excess deaths in Spain from August 3-18 that could be attributed to the scorching temperatures, the public health agency said, according to AFP. The institute used data from Spain&#8217;s Mortality Monitoring System (MoMo) that was compared to historical trends. It also incorporates external factors, such as weather data from the national meteorological [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7103,7109,7100],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-accidents-en","category-health-en","category-international-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zardis.net\/news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}