After a record-hot summer, the heat-fueled hurricanes that recently struck North Carolina and Florida raise more alarms for the future of health and vitality on a rapidly warming planet. Penn LDI fellows and Perelman School of Medicine faculty Sameed Ahmed M. Khatana, Ashwin Nathan, Lauren Eberly, Jagadeesh Puvvula, and colleagues are among those concerned. In their new study, the team looks to understand the pressing implications of climate change on mortality in the U.S. Khatana and the team find that extreme temperature days are associated with 8,249 deaths per year, based on data from 2008 to 2019. Looking ahead, they project that extreme heat days could result in about 19,349 deaths per year under a lower greenhouse gas emissions increase scenario, or as many as 26,574 deaths annually in a higher emissions scenario. Read more at Penn Today.