High heat is preferentially killing the young, not the old, new research finds

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Many recent studies assume that elderly people are at particular risk of dying from extreme heat as the planet warms. A new study of mortality in Mexico turns this assumption on its head: it shows that 75% of heat-related deaths are occurring among people under 35 — a large percentage of them ages 18 to 35, or the very group that one might expect to be most resistant to heat.

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