Important Takeaways:

• World breaks 1,400 temperature records in a week as heat waves sweep globe
• This week, more than 1,000 temperature records broke around the world, many of them shattered by extreme heat.
• Hundreds have perished while making the Hajj pilgrimage to Islam’s holiest site, Mecca, while some 100 million people are under a heat advisory in the United States.
• The total number of heat-related deaths isn’t yet clear, but at least hundreds have died in an unseasonably early heat wave
• In India, which has seen some of the most extreme temperatures, at least 100 people have died in the last three months due to heat.

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