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Climate change fuels disasters, but deaths don't add up
Heat-related deaths have risen by 63% since the 1990s despite a decline in overall disaster fatalities, with low-income countries facing greater risks, experts say.
- Annual climate reports show the last three years have been the hottest since the pre-industrial era, with rising global temperatures bringing hotter summers, more frequent flooding, stronger storms and increasingly devastating wildfires and droughts.
- More than 2.3 million people died from weather-related events between 1970 and 2025, but the death toll between 2015 and 2025 reached 305,156, down from 354,428 in the previous decade due to better coping mechanisms.
- Deaths from floods, storms, wildfires and earthquakes rose to 17,200 in 2025, higher than the 11,000 fatalities recorded in 2024, but early warning systems can protect lives.
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