Abbott government urged to better articulate dangers of climate change as Climate Council highlights rising number of hot days The government has been urged to better articulate the dangers of climate
<p>The year 2019 was the seventh warmest year on record since nation-wide records commenced in 1901 according to IMD's Statement on Climate of India during 2019.</p>
NEW DELHI: Mean temperature in India has increased by nearly 0.6 degree Celsius over the last 110 years in line with rising temperature across the globe, said the government in Parliament while informing
Worldwide heat records have been broken again, with 2016 declared the hottest for a third consecutive year, a new report has revealed. 2016 was the hottest year on record globally for the third year in
<p>Climate over India during 2019 was above average with respect to temperature. The annual mean temperature for the country this year was +0.36°C above the 1981-2010 average, thus making the year
Sydney is enduring its driest summer in 72 years, with much of NSW parched by three heatwaves in January and little relief in sight, meteorologists say. The Harbour City has recorded just 48.4 millimetres
Extreme heat is a public health challenge. The scarcity of directly comparable studies on the association of heat with morbidity and mortality and the inconsistent identification of threshold temperatures
<p>Although natural terrestrial ecosystems have sequestered ~25% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions, the long-term sustainability of this key ecosystem service is under question. Forests have traditionally
The death toll from natural disasters such as earthquakes, storms and heatwaves rose sharply worldwide in the first six months of 2015, the world's largest reinsurance company Munich Re said on Tuesday.
Governments should treat climate change as seriously as threats to national security or public health, partly by focusing more on the worst scenarios of rising temperatures, an international report said
Ahmedabad has become the first city in South Asia to come up with a Heat Action Plan (HAP), informing citizens about extreme climates in the near future and the necessary steps to tackle it. Temperatures
Australia had its warmest year on record, with annual temperatures 1.2 degrees Celsius (2.16 degrees Fahrenheit) above the 1961-1990 average, according to a new analysis from Australia's Bureau of Meteorology
Britain experienced its hottest July day for 160 years on Wednesday as temperatures hit 36.7 degrees, surpassing even Mumbai in India. Roads melted and hundreds of trains were cancelled or delayed over
A heatwave affecting Argentina has left at least seven people dead - most of them elderly - in the past week, officials say. The heat has been compounded by power cuts, which have prevented many people
A district court ordered the Dutch government on Wednesday to cut greenhouse gas emissions faster than currently planned in a rare use of the legal system to curb global warming. A judge in The Hague
Sure, summers in the city are typically hot. But this seems a little more intense than most, and something similar happened just last year. That's the question increasingly being asked by communities
BHOPAL: Over 50 peacocks died in Morena district in the past 48 hours due to excessive heat. The forest officials recovered nearly dozen dead birds and sent them for post-mortem. The high toll raised serious
This technical paper firstly addresses the negative impacts of climate change, such as through natural disasters, heat waves or droughts on employment and livelihoods. Second, it explores how climate-related
Despite hopes that weekend thundershowers would help end a raging heatwave in southern India, the rain brought only limited relief as the death toll since mid-April approached 2,200. Officials said
Prashant Rupera | TNN Vadodara/Anand: Here is some good news for all those who are perturbed with the heat wave that is sweeping the state. While the heat wave isn
