{"id":73165,"date":"2026-07-21T09:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=73165"},"modified":"2026-07-21T09:27:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T13:27:52","slug":"heatwaves-are-killing-tens-of-thousands-in-india-officials-are-barely-counting-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=73165","title":{"rendered":"Heatwaves are killing tens of thousands in India. Officials are barely counting them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-73166\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-21-at-9.26.59-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"586\" height=\"790\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-21-at-9.26.59-AM.png 586w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Screenshot-2026-07-21-at-9.26.59-AM-223x300.png 223w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"c-article-summary\">Experts warn that official heatwave death figures are grossly underestimated.<\/h2>\n<div class=\"c-article-content c-article-content--earth js-article-content\">\n<p>India has been sweltering through a baking\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/video\/2026\/05\/21\/intensifying-heat-wave-grips-northern-india-as-temperatures-near-48c\"><strong>hot summer<\/strong><\/a>, with temperatures in the northern state of Uttar Pradesh creeping past 48\u00b0C in May.<\/p>\n<p>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<p>A five-day heatwave is linked to nearly 30,000 extra deaths, according to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontiersin.org\/journals\/environmental-health\/articles\/10.3389\/fenvh.2026.1789071\/full\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>paper<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0published in the Frontiers in Environmental Health journal last month.<\/p>\n<p>These heatwaves are becoming more frequent, longer and more intense as climate change \u2013 driven by the burning of fossil fuels \u2013 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<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/06\/10\/heatwaves-are-killing-tens-of-thousands-in-india-officials-are-barely-counting-them\">https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/2026\/06\/10\/heatwaves-are-killing-tens-of-thousands-in-india-officials-are-barely-counting-them<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73165"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":73167,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73165\/revisions\/73167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}