Extreme weather such as intense storms, droughts and heatwaves will cause more frequent and severe food shortages as the global climate and food supply systems change, British and American experts warned
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday that two people died and 480 were hospitalized for heat exhaustion in the week from May 11 to May 17 as temperatures soared across the nation. In
Climate change, besides leading to physical destruction, is likely to affect the mental health of humans, a study has revealed. Droughts, floods, rising sea levels, increasing ambient temperatures and
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday that 11,672 people were taken to hospitals nationwide to be treated for heatstroke in the week from July 27 to Aug 2, the first time ever that the number
The number of people across Japan taken to hospitals by ambulance due to heatstroke or heat exhaustion stood at 11,672 in the week to Sunday, the most in a single week since officials started compiling
Southern China will likely continue to experience high temperatures, while some areas in northern regions may see some relief due to rainfall, China's meteorological authority said on Sunday. Over the
Visakhapatnam, April 2: Mercury has shot up generating heat wave conditions in coastal Andhra Pradesh. Except for the city and Kalingapatnam in Srikakulam district, temperatures have gone up in the entire coastal Andhra during the last 24 hours with Nellore recording a maximum temperature of 41 degrees Celsius.
High temperatures recorded in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region for the past week are likely to persist until Sunday, the national meteorological authority said on Monday. The warning came as the authority
<p>The term ‘new normal’ is defined and applied to 2015 record-breaking temperatures. A new normal can be useful for understanding and communicating extremes in a changing climate when precisely
URUMQI -- Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region in Northwest China sustained a red alert for high temperatures on Sunday for a fourth day. Dou Xinying, chief weatherwoman with the Xinjiang Meteorological Station,
LUCKNOW: Even as heat wave conditions intensified in the state on Monday with mercury level 5-7 degrees above normal in most districts, it is now also turning out to be the longest dry and hot weather
Is climate change a serious threat to human health? Simple logic would suggest the answer is yes, a point that the Obama administration is using to build support for the President's effort to make climate
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Climate Change Cell of the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) said on Monday people in the province were safe from severe heatstroke. However, officials warned if temperatures continued
There was no respite from heat for Mumbaikars on Thursday as the temperature hovered around 40
DADU: Six people died from heatstroke on Sunday that also sent another 36 children to the Dadu Civil Hospital as the temperatures rose to 50 degrees Celsius and played havoc with the district’s electric
Spell of sweltering weather expected to last several days as temperatures hit 40C and UN urges countries to develop better warning systems European countries including France, Spain, Italy and Britain
KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: As 16 more people died of heat exhaustion in Karachi on Monday, the climate change ministry set up a committee to look into the causes of the current heatwave and possibly why so many
As last week’s heatwave death toll in Pakistan’s largest city crossed 1,200, and there was no sign of the monsoon rain promised by the weatherman, some experts warned of another heatwave in the offing.
ISLAMABAD, June 29 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a heatwave in Pakistan's commercial center Karachi and parts of southern Sindh province has passed 1,000 over the past ten days, health officials said
The threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could undermine the last 50 years of gains in development and global health, experts warned on Tuesday. Extreme weather events such as
