2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
Heat Waves
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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.
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No respite from heat: Titlagarh boils at 46.2
FUN GROUNDS MERCURY: Unmindful of the prevailing heat conditions, these children are having fun in Bhubaneswar on Monday. BHUBANESWAR: There was no sign of any let up in the sweltering conditions across the State though some parts experienced thunder squalls on Monday. Instead, the mercury rose on the hot plate of Orissa with Titlagarh recording a new high of the season - 46.2 degree Celsius.
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Met predicts heat wave in Hyderabad
May 11: The city meteorological centre has predicted heat wave conditions in parts of Telangana including Hyderabad. Strong north-westerly winds and dry air from the Thar desert is leading to rise in temperature in the state. The maximum temperatures rose at one or two places over Rayalaseema and changed a little over coastal Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.