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Climate & Environmental Crisis

Category ID: climate Icon: cloud-rain Color: #059669 This category contains 7 event types and 37 subtypes for tracking climate & environmental crisis events.

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Special Fields

This category includes the following specialized metadata fields:
FieldTypeRequiredOptions
hazard_typestringYes6 values (see below)
severitystringYes5 values (see below)
fatalitiesintegerNo
displaced_personsintegerNo
estimated_damage_usdfloatNo
affected_area_km2floatNo

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Hazard Type

Field ID: hazard_type
Type: string
Required: Yes Allowed values:
  • Meteorological
  • Geophysical
  • Hydrological
  • Climatological
  • Biological
  • Industrial/Technological

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Severity

Field ID: severity
Type: string
Required: Yes Allowed values:
  • Advisory
  • Watch
  • Warning
  • Emergency
  • Catastrophic

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Fatalities

Field ID: fatalities
Type: integer
Required: No

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Displaced Persons

Field ID: displaced_persons
Type: integer
Required: No

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Estimated Damage Usd

Field ID: estimated_damage_usd
Type: float
Required: No

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Affected Area Km2

Field ID: affected_area_km2
Type: float
Required: No

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Event Type Hierarchy

The Climate & Environmental Crisis category includes the following complete hierarchy:

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Natural Disaster

Type ID: natural_disaster
Subtypes: 7
  • Earthquake (earthquake)
  • Volcanic Eruption (volcanic_eruption)
  • Tsunami (tsunami)
  • Hurricane Typhoon Cyclone (hurricane_typhoon_cyclone)
  • Tornado (tornado)
  • Flood (flood)
  • Landslide (landslide)

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Climate Driven Crisis

Type ID: climate_driven_crisis
Subtypes: 5
  • Drought (drought)
  • Wildfire (wildfire)
  • Extreme Heat Event (extreme_heat_event)
  • Glacial Lake Outburst (glacial_lake_outburst)
  • Sea Level Inundation (sea_level_inundation)

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Environmental Degradation

Type ID: environmental_degradation
Subtypes: 7
  • Deforestation (deforestation)
  • Desertification (desertification)
  • Coral Reef Collapse (coral_reef_collapse)
  • Biodiversity Loss Event (biodiversity_loss_event)
  • Soil Contamination (soil_contamination)
  • Air Pollution Event (air_pollution_event)
  • Water Pollution Event (water_pollution_event)

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Industrial Environmental Disaster

Type ID: industrial_environmental_disaster
Subtypes: 5
  • Oil Spill (oil_spill)
  • Chemical Release (chemical_release)
  • Nuclear Incident (nuclear_incident)
  • Mining Disaster (mining_disaster)
  • Dam Failure (dam_failure)

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Resource Conflict

Type ID: resource_conflict
Subtypes: 4
  • Water Scarcity Dispute (water_scarcity_dispute)
  • Land Use Conflict (land_use_conflict)
  • Fishing Rights Dispute (fishing_rights_dispute)
  • Mining Rights Conflict (mining_rights_conflict)

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Climate Policy And Response

Type ID: climate_policy_and_response
Subtypes: 4
  • Climate Agreement (climate_agreement)
  • Emissions Regulation (emissions_regulation)
  • Disaster Relief Deployment (disaster_relief_deployment)
  • Environmental Protest (environmental_protest)

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Biological Hazard

Type ID: biological_hazard
Subtypes: 5
  • Pandemic (pandemic)
  • Disease Outbreak (disease_outbreak)
  • Epidemic (epidemic)
  • Vector Borne Disease Spread (vector_borne_disease_spread)
  • Zoonotic Spillover (zoonotic_spillover)

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Example API Queries

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Get all Climate & Environmental Crisis events

import requests

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.intrace.com/v1/corpus/events",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "your-api-key"},
    params={"event_category": "climate"}
)
events = response.json()

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Get Natural Disaster events

response = requests.get(
    "https://api.intrace.com/v1/corpus/events",
    headers={"X-API-Key": "your-api-key"},
    params={
        "event_category": "climate",
        "event_type": "natural_disaster"
    }
)

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Conceptual Guidance

Climate events use scientific hazard classification:
  • hazard_type follows international standards (Meteorological, Geophysical, etc.)
  • severity indicates immediate danger level
  • Impact metrics: fatalities, displaced_persons, estimated_damage_usd
Natural Disaster vs Climate Driven Crisis: Acute events vs slow-onset phenomena. ← Back to Taxonomy Overview