State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Heat Waves
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Mercury rises early
Hot spell in India kills 80 in eastern India. Heat waves now come earlier and stay longer. This latest special report by Down To Earth team covers the heat struck regions of India to figure out what is happening to the weather.......<a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp?foldername=20090531&filename=news&sid=13&sec_id=9" target="blank">More»</a> See Also:
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Whats fanning heat waves
Archita Bhatta Scientists pore over data to explain the unusual weather They can
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Mercury rises early
<i>Heat waves follow a dry spell in Orissa and West Bengal, killing 80 people in April. Dust storms take Assam by surprise and Malwa scrambles for water. What
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Definition in degrees
The India Meteorological Department defines heat waves under two categories. The first category includes places where the normal maximum temperature is more than 40
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Climate Health Costs: Bug-Borne Ills, Killer Heat
Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health. These pests and others are expanding their ranges in a warming world, which means people who never had to worry about them will have to start. And they are hardly the only health threats from global warming.
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Climate changes happening faster than forecasts
NEW DELHI: Climate changes are happening much faster and outstripping all efforts to predict them, suggests a new report on weather patterns.
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Heatwave hits cotton farmers
The scorching sun and the soaring mercury is not only making life difficult for human beings, even plants are finding the heatwave too much for their survival. Sprouts of cotton of many farmers in this district have withered away due to the heatwave prevailing in the area during the past one week. Many others have decided to delay sowing as they see no let-up in the weather conditions.
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Punjab scorched by heat wave
Bathinda and adjoining areas continued to sizzle on Tuesday even as a smart shower in several places in Punjab, Chandigarh and adjoining areas provided temporary relief from the prevailing heat-wave.
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Hot news: only 1/4th of year comfortable, rest unbearable, says study
New Delhi: Delhi is a city of extremes, and that
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Heat wave on in W Orissa, toll 126
BHUBANESHWAR: Despite fall in mercury level below 40 degree Celsius in most parts of coastal Orissa on Tuesday, heat wave continued unabated in western and interior parts as suspected sunstroke death rose to 126, official sources said.