Rising temperatures due to the increase in suicides

Scientists have found a link between the rise in global climate temperatures and rising suicide rates – and warn that the number of people taking their own lives could increase as the Earth continues to heat.

Researchers at Stanford University, California, compared decades of data on temperatures and suicide rates in the United States and Mexico and found a "strong correlation between warm weather and suicides increased ". the journal Nature Climate Change, the suicide rate increased from 0.7 % in United States, and 2.1 % in Mexico, [19659004] when the monthly average temperature increased by 1C .

The researchers also badyzed more than half a billion Twitter messages and found that "depressive language has increased in hot weather," Reuters adds. 19659002] "The study projected that if global warming is not capped by 2050, there could be at least 21,000 additional suicides in both countries alone," says the news site. .

The latest figures show that suicide was the tenth leading cause of death in the United States in 2016, killing nearly 45,000 people during the year, reports the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. Georgia

. According to the World Health Organization, the World Health Organization reports nearly 800,000 deaths a year

. According to a Stanford economist, the author of the study, Marshall Burke, said, "Suicide is a very complex phenomenon. This is not yet well understood, and there are many other risk factors beyond the climate that are important for the risk of suicide.

"But our results suggest that warming can have a surprisingly large impact on the risk of suicide. mental health and what we should expect as temperatures continue to heat up. "