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More than half a million could die as climate change impacts diet â report. Climate change could kill more than 500,000 people a year globally by 2050 by making their diets less healthy, according to new research published in the Lancet. The research is the first to assess how the impacts of global warming could affect the quality of the diets available to people and found fewer fruit and vegetables would be available as a result of climatic changes.
Causes of death due to weather. This chart compares the number of average number of deaths per year caused by bad weather in the U.S. from 1996-2011. Syracuse, N.Y. -- More than 800 people die each year in the U.S. in vehicle crashes caused by snow, sleet and freezing rain, a new study says. The study, by University of Georgia researcher Alan Black, is the first to compare the actual death rate with the expected rate based on population and weather patterns.