LiveScience: Heat-related deaths in New York City's borough of Manhattan may rise about 20 percent over the next decade, according to a new study.
Researchers at Columbia University in New York analyzed the relationship between daily temperatures and temperature-related deaths across all seasons between 1982 and 1999 in Manhattan, which comprises the most densely populated county in the United States. The findings were published online May 19 in the journal Nature Climate Change.
Using projections from...