In January 2022, Storm Ana “wrought devastation across southern Africa”, said Climate Home News. More than 80 people were killed and thousands of people were “cut off” as roads and bridges were “washed away in Madagascar, Mozambique and Malawi”, said the BBC.
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Wildfires Algeria, Sicily, summer 2022
At least 34 people were killed in Algeria, while three were killed in Italy’s southern island of Sicily. Temperatures topping 40C and parched ground have sparked fires in countries on both sides of the Mediterranean. Sky News, 26 July 2022.
Global warming deaths
Climate Change Mortality This website aims to record all climate change deaths around the world We will use available news sources, and official data. The importance of the deadly impact of climate change needs to be recorded in a systematic way. The issue is not going away and deaths are happening all the time.
Hurricane Maria deaths in Puerto Rico 2017
Hurricane Maria was a deadly Category 5 hurricane that devastated the northeastern Caribbean in September 2017, particularly in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, which accounted for 2,975 of the 3,059 deaths caused by the hurricane.