Carbon Brief reviews the most closely watched climate articles in 2021
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In first place was the heat-related death burden due to recent man-made climate change (The Burden of Heat-related Mortality Attributable to Recent Human-induced Climate Change) published in Natural Climate change (Nature Climate Change), with an Altmetric score of 5715. Researchers from the University of Bern in Switzerland (University of Bern) and the University of Emory (Emory University) in the United States collected data from 732 locations in 43 countries from 1991 to 2018 to investigate the effects of high temperature on human mortality. The study found that 37% of heat-related deaths can be attributed to man-made climate change. The study was mentioned in 865 online news, 69 blog posts and 1286 tweets, covering the Guardian, the New York Times, the Sydney Morning Herald, the Times, the London Evening Standard, the Independent, Bloomberg and the Associated Press.