Climate crisis: Extreme weather driving rise in major disaster events, UN report finds

Disasters caused by extreme weather events have surged in number over recent decades, causing suffering and hardship on a huge scale, with the climate crisis largely responsible for the rise, a UN report has found. Between 2000 and 2019, there were 7,348 major recorded disaster events which claimed 1.23 million lives, affecting 4.2 billion people – many on more than one occasion –...