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In a 2024 survey, 76.3% of responding IPCC lead authors and review editors projected at least 2.5 °C of global warming by 2100; only 5.79% forecast warming of 1.5 °C or less. [98] January: the World Economic Forum projected that, by 2050, directly and indirectly, climate change will cause 14.5 million deaths and $12.5 trillion in economic losses.
In late 2024, human metapneumovirus was linked to 6.2 percent of positive respiratory illness tests and 5.4 percent of respiratory-illness hospitalizations in China, more than COVID-19, rhinovirus or adenovirus. [4] [better source needed] Cases were reported in Hong Kong, with a lower growth rate than that of mainland China. [5] [6]
New data confirms 2024 will be the hottest year on record and the first calendar year to ... Nearly all the world’s countries pledged to strive to keep global warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius ...
By 5 July 2020, 188 countries or regions had reported cases of COVID-19. [25] As of November 2021, the continuing COVID-19 pandemic had killed over 5 million people. [26] As a result of the severity of the virus, most countries enacted lockdowns to protect people, mitigate the spread of the virus, and ensure space in hospitals. [27]
GENEVA (Reuters) -Every major global climate record was broken last year and 2024 could be worse, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Tuesday, with its chief voicing particular ...
"Every hurricane in 2024 was stronger than it would have been 100 years ago," Dr. Daniel Gilford, climate scientist at Climate Central and lead author of the study, said in a release.
The first section contains summary information: the total number of countries and territories with at least 100, 1,000, 10,000, 100,000, a million and ten million cases; the number of cases reported to WHO; the countries and territories that have reported no cases yet to WHO; and two charts showing the 20 countries and territories with the ...
In 2024, the pandemic, so fresh in the American collective memory, has been pushed deep into the netherworld of U.S. electoral hippocampus. ... The global coronavirus pandemic declared on March 13 ...