Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an organization led by Annan, the former United Nations secretary general.

a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum's report was "a methodological embarrassment" because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to human-driven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受傷害的) regions

"One of the risk factors for premature deaths is the air we breathe, over which individuals have little control," he said.

According to the World Health Organization, 80 percent of deaths from heart disease and stroke are caused by high blood pressure, tobacco use, elevated cholesterol and low consumption of fruits and vegetables.

Texting while driving was listed as a major cause of road deaths among young Americans back in 2013.

That's especially worrying, she says, given that anorexia results in more deaths than does any other mental illness, according to the National Institute of Mental Health.

Love, who is director of Weather and disaster risk Reduction at the World Meteorological Organization, says most of the deaths and economic losses were caused by weather, climate, or water-related extremes.

Major storm surges in 1970 and 1991 caused the deaths of about 440,000 people.

While this makes a lot of sense, it results in many lion deaths that otherwise would have been unnecessary.

Had the governments and scientists not worked together, aids-related deaths would not have fallen since their highest in 2005.

Two of the authors of the review also made a study published in 2014 which/that showed a mere five to 10 minutes a day of running reduced the risk of heart disease and early deaths from all causes.

In the U.S., it has infected more than one million people, and caused more than 600 deaths and more than 6,000 hospitalizations.

The outbreak came to global notice in late April 2009, when Mexican authorities noted an unusually large number of hospitalizations and deaths among healthy adults.