2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
Heat Waves
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Drought could cut German supplies of potatoes for French fries
A drought and heat wave in Europe this summer could cause a shortage of potatoes big enough for industrial production of French fries, a German industry group warned on Tuesday. Potato crop yields might
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Higher temperatures due to human activity making heatwaves more likely
Rising global temperatures caused by human activity are making the heatwaves gripping the northern hemisphere more likely, scientists warn. Extreme heat has been seen in the northern hemisphere, with
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Greek wildfire kills at least 20 near Athens, residents flee homes
At least 20 people died and more than 100 were injured on Monday as a wildfire swept through a small resort town in eastern Greece with many victims trapped by flames as they fled. A wildfire rages in
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Five die as mercury soars in Assam
GUWAHATI: The sudden heat in the middle of July-making temperatures soar to 38 degree Celsius in the capital-has not only taken everyone by surprise but also left them in a state of panic when five deaths
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Japanese heat wave pushes temperature to record
The temperature rose to a record 41.1 Celsius (106 Fahrenheit) in a city northwest of Tokyo on Monday, as a heat wave in Japan that has killed at least 23 people and sent thousands to hospital showed no
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Heatwave seems to make manmade climate change real for Americans
A long-running survey of American attitudes to climate change has found that 73% of people now think there is solid evidence of global warming. A further 60% believe that this warming is due, at least
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Extreme silence: How the U.S. media have failed to connect climate change to extreme heat in 2018
This report examines media coverage of extreme heat and climate change from January 1 to July 8, 2018, as well as in the context of the major heat event that spread over the Northern Hemisphere over a
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Dust storm wreaks havoc, claims two lives
JAIPUR/ALWAR/KOTA: Dust storm followed by rains hit various parts of the state leaving two persons dead on Tuesday afternoon. However, rains turned weather pleasant in Jaipur as it brought respite from
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Cities face dramatic rise in heat, flood risks by 2050, researchers say
In just 30 years, cities around the world will face dramatically higher risks from extreme heat, coastal flooding, power blackouts and food and water shortages unless climate-changing emissions are curbed,
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Development of monsoonal Asia climate risk analysis maprooms
The Asian monsoon plays a major role in the variability of seasonal temperature and precipitation and the sub-seasonal statistics of these and other climate variables. Due to its considerable impact on