{"id":599453,"date":"2026-09-13T21:38:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599453\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T21:38:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T21:38:09","slug":"a-deadly-heatwave-killed-739-in-a-week-but-the-investigation-found-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599453\/","title":{"rendered":"A deadly heatwave killed 739 in a week\u2014but the investigation found worse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\tA deadly heatwave killed 739 in a week\u2014but the investigation found worse &#8211; Futura-Sciences<\/p>\n<p>September 13, 2026<\/p>\n<p>            5 min    <\/p>\n<p>            <img width=\"1920\" height=\"1047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a-deadly-heatwave-killed-739-in-a-week-but-the-investigation-found-worse.webp\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Here is the real culprit behind the 739 deaths during the Chicago heatwave\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\"  \/><br \/>\n                    Here is the real culprit behind the 739 deaths during the Chicago heatwave, and it isn&#8217;t the heat. \u00a9 Bgfoto, iStock<\/p>\n<p>\n            See also\n        <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A deadly heatwave killed 739 in a week\u2014but the investigation found worse &#8211; Futura-Sciences September 13, 2026 5&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599454,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[273,230311,111,139,69,147],"class_list":["post-599453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-health-medicine","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599453","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599453\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599454"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}