UCLA researchers have released an alarming new finding — the duration of heat waves is increasing faster than global warming itself.

The rapid analysis by World Weather Attribution calculated that climate change might have tripled the death toll from the event.

PARIS (Reuters) -France's public health authority said on Friday that more than 100 people had died from drowning between June 1 and July 2 this year, an increase of 58% over the same period last year, blaming it on unusually warm weather at the end of June.