More than 33 million people were impacted by floods in Pakistan in the summer of 2022, 90 districts hit, and an estimated 8 million people were displaced. As of 18 November 2022, the Pakistan National Disaster Management Authority reported that over 1,700 people had lost their lives and at least 12,867 people were injured. Red… Continue reading Pakistan floods 2022

Provisional data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which actively tracks daily and weekly heat-related illnesses, shows that 1,714 US deaths in 2022 were due to “heat-related” causes. USA Facts, 23 August 2023

More than 40 people died in Algeria, Italy and Greece and thousands were evacuated as Mediterranean wildfires threatened villages and holiday resorts. Most of the deaths were in Algeria. BBC, 26 July 2023

An analysis published in Nature Medicine, estimates 61,672 heat-attributable deaths between 30 May and 4 September 2022. The research team obtained temperature and mortality data for the period 2015-2022 for 823 regions in 35 European countries, whose total population represents more than 543 million people. 7 July 2023, Barcelona Institute for Global Health

A record-breaking temperature of 40.3 degrees was recorded on 28 July, and a series of fires broke out across the country. Analysis by the UK Health Security Agency published in October, found that 2,800 more people aged 65 and over died during the periods of high temperatures than would normally be expected.

Hurricane Ian was the third-costliest weather disaster on record, the deadliest hurricane to strike the state of Florida since the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, and the strongest hurricane to make landfall in Florida since Michael in 2018. It“came ashore on the western coast of Florida with an unforgiving storm surge”. It then moved up the… Continue reading Hurricane Ian, September 2022

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.

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.

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 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.