Benjamin Peltz, for UChicago News, delves into the shifting trends of global climate disaster deaths and B.B. Cael’s study Climate Hazard Mortality: Diagnosing Trends and Outliers, which analyzed nearly 2,000 deadly climate disasters since 1988.
Notable trends include the diminished frequency and severity of storms in Asia, the increase in deadly floods and storms in Africa, the rise in extreme-heat related deaths in Europe, and more.
Both Peltz and Cael highlight the importance of “continued, systematic monitoring of disaster deaths, both to understand how risks are evolving and to learn where interventions are working.”
Read the report here or read on to learn more.
Source: https://news.uchicago.edu/story/what-decades-data-reveal-about-climate-disaster-deaths
https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/2025GL119218
