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Climate-Fueled Disasters Killed 475,000 People over 20 Years Puerto Rico was identified as suffering the greatest climate impacts over that time period Print An aerial view shows the flooded neighborhood of Juana Matos in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Catano, Puerto Rico, on September 22, 2017. Credit: Ricardo  Arduengo Advertisement Nearly a half-million people, mostly from the world’s poorest countries, died over the past two decades from conditions associated with climate disasters, according to new findings from the nonprofit Germanwatch. In its annual “Global Climate Risk Ind...

Puerto Rico, Myanmar and Haiti were among the countries worst-affected by extreme weather events. Jan 26, 2021 13:55:58 IST Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct threat posed to humanity by climate change. The mortality burden of climate-related catastrophes such as storms, flooding and heatwaves is overwhelmingly borne by developing countries. At the start of the Climate Adaptation Summit, held virtually this year due to the pandemic, the think tank Germanwatch calculated...

Top Story January 26, 2021 ISLAMABAD: Violent storms caused more damage than any other type of extreme weather in 2019, with poorest nations bearing the brunt, according to a study published Monday by environmental organisation Germanwatch. "On the one hand, there was Cyclone Idai on the southeast coast of Africa, which caused damage in Mozambique, Zimbabwe, Malawi; and, on the other hand, a hurricane in the Caribbean that hit the Bahamas," said David Eckstein, a policy adviser at Germanwatch and co-author of the report, which has been published each year since 2006. More than 1,000 people l...

The United States marked its return to the global fight against climate change yesterday by joining high level talks on ways to better protect people and economies from the effects of global warming already taking place. Less than a week after President Joe Biden announced the return of the United States to the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement, his Special Climate Envoy John Kerry

Over 4.8 lakh people died due to extreme weather events this century: Analysis Firstpost 26-01-2021 Agence France-Presse © Provided by Firstpost Over 4.8 lakh people died due to extreme weather events this century: Analysis Almost half a million people have died in natural disasters linked to extreme weather events in the last 20 years, according to a new assessment of the direct threat posed to humanity by climate change. The mortality burden of climate-related catastrophes such as storms, flooding and heatwaves is overwhelmingly borne by developing countries. At the st...