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Can Wikipedia tell us what extreme weather costs?

Paper: Wikimpacts 1.0: a new global climate impact database based on automated information extraction from Wikipedia
Li et al. · Natural Hazards and Earth System Sciences 2026 · doi.org/10.5194/nhess-26-2609-2026

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Can Wikipedia tell us what extreme weather costs? Researchers used AI to read it, and built a database of 2,726 climate extremes, from the year 1034 to 2024.

AI-assisted summary with an AI voice, not reviewed by the authors. Made from the paper under its CC BY licence. Read the paper before relying on a finding. Keywords: climate extremes, socio-economic impacts, Wikipedia, automatic information extraction, natural language processing, GPT-4o.