The death toll between 2015 and 2025 reached 305,156, down from 354,428 in the previous decade, the analysis showed. It is "very clear" that extreme heat is becoming deadlier, said Theodore Keeping, researcher at Imperial College London. He said that for extreme heat events, there are robust scientific studies and models that can attribute additional deaths to the specific increase in temperature caused by climate change. The death toll from storms totalled 36,652 in 2015-2025 compared to 184,237 in the preceding decade. Thousands of deaths from major earthquakes in Myanmar and Afghanistan caused the death toll to spike year-on-year.

Source: Bangladesh Sangbad Sangstha January 21, 2026 07:06 UTC