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Heat attack: Black seniors bear unequal burden of cardiac deaths from rising temperatures
Elderly Black Americans are on the front lines of a coming spike in deaths from climate change, a new study has found. Between 2008 and 2019, extreme heat drove at least 1600 Americans — disproportionately Black and elderly — to an early death from heart attacks. Without aggressive action on climate, that number could more than double by mid-century, according to findings published on Monday in Circulation. Researchers found that if fossil fuel burning isn't quickly reduced, the number of extra deaths could more than double, reaching more than 3,700 per year. Even if current proposals to cut greenhouse gas emissions are met — still a politically controversial question — the st

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