Heatwave toll 53 in Orissa
Bhubaneswar: As Orissa continued to boil in an abnormally hot summer, reports of sunstroke deaths rose to 53 on Monday. However, in the state government
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Met sounds heatwave alert
April 22: The Met department has sounded a heatwave alert in the city and many parts of the state after temperatures reached 5
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As mercury levels shoot up, be prepared for dehydration
Ahmedabad : Parth Desai, 19, was playing tennis when he suddenly collapsed after getting spasms. He complained of severe muscle cramps, so much so that the youngster had tears in his eyes. Blame it on the heat wave that has started preying upon unsuspecting citizens.
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Thunderstorms kill 16 in U.P
Heat wave sweeps North India; temperatures soar at several places Thunderstorms killed 16 people in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday even as heat and humidity continued to wear down people in North India where temperatures soared at several places while falling marginally in Delhi. In the national Capital, where the mercury on Tuesday shot up to the season's highest of 44.1 degree Celsius, the maxim
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Ten birds in Thane feel the summer heat
Thane: Soaring mercury levels have apparently started taking a toll on the birds in the city, as the Society for Protection against Cruelty to Animals (SPCA) registered 10 cases of birds afflicted with sunstroke on Tuesday, almost a month before the onset of summer.
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U.S. Cities Face Water-Related Climate Change Dangers: Study
<p> Rising sea waters may threaten U.S. coastal cities later this century, while the Midwest and East Coast are at high risk for intense storms, and the West could see compromised water supplies.</p>
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Tokyo temperature hits record 37.9
The heat wave set a new high for July of 37.9 in central Tokyo on Tuesday afternoon, exceeding the previous record of 37.7 registered on July 5, 1997, the Meteorological Agency
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Strengthening disaster risk management in India: a review of five state disaster management plans
India has suffered from many disasters in its recent history, both natural and climate-related, and these continue to cause devastation. In November 2015, floods in the southern city of Chennai, Tamil
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Strengthening disaster risk management in India: a review of five state disaster management plans
India has suffered from many disasters in its recent history, both natural and climate-related, and these continue to cause devastation. In November 2015, floods in the southern city of Chennai, Tamil
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Climate adaptation: Seizing the challenge
Scientific and business communities increasingly recognize that climate change is causing weather extremes and precipitating natural disasters, such as the European heat wave of 2003, the drought in East
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Impacts of climate change on public health in India: Future research directions
Climate change and associated increases in climate variability will likely further exacerbate global health disparities. More research is needed, particularly in developing countries, to accurately predict
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The impact of heat waves and cold spells on mortality rates in the Dutch population
We conducted the study described in this paper to investigate the impact of ambient temperature on mortality in the Netherlands during 1979-1997, the impact of heat waves and cold spells on mortality in
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A district level assessment of vulnerability of Indian agriculture to climate change
<p>By 2050, India is likely to experience a temperature rise of 1-4°C; rainfall will increase by 9-16 per cent. This will have a detrimental effect on farmers in more than half of the country.</p>
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The role of inequality in climate-poverty debates
There is no doubt that the poorest people are already and will continue to be most severely impacted by climatic changes, including shifting trends as well as more frequent and severe extreme events. Yet,
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Poorest countries experience earlier anthropogenic emergence of daily temperature extremes
<p>Understanding how the emergence of the anthropogenic warming signal from the noise of internal variability translates to changes in extreme event occurrence is of crucial societal importance. By utilising
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Forest fires on the rise in Mumbai, future tense
The city is reeling under a heat wave, having registered the hottest March day since 1956. This has meant a rise in the number of forest fires at the Sanjay Gandhi National Park (SGNP), spread over 104 sq km. Since January 2011, it has witnessed around 25 such cases.
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Global Warming Is a Cause of This Years Extreme Weather
It's almost a point of pride with climatologists. Whenever someplace is hit with a heat wave, drought, killer storm or other extreme weather, scientists trip over themselves to absolve global warming. No particular weather event, goes the mantra, can be blamed on something so general.
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Years Later, Climatologist Renews His Call for Action
Twenty years ago Monday, James E. Hansen, a climate scientist at NASA, shook Washington and the world by telling a sweating crowd at a Senate hearing during a stifling heat wave that he was "99 percent' certain that humans were already warming the climate.
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Heatwave claims 51 in Orissa
Orissa continues to reel under heatwave conditions even as the death toll due to sun stroke in the state mounted to 51 on Thursday. Seven deaths were reported from Dhenkanal, six each from Angul and Jagatsinghpur, five from Khurda, four each from Ganjam, Nayagarh, Sambalpur and Sundergarh, two each from Balasore, Puri and Sonepur, three in Jajpur and one from Kendrapara and Mayurbhanj districts.
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Heat scorches North, 4 dead
The North felt the onslaught of the blistering heat on Saturday as Delhi recorded a season's high of 41 degree Celsius and the mercury hovered near the 45-degree mark in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh while it claimed two lives each in Jharkhand and West Bengal. There were also reports of another seven deaths due to sunstroke in Orissa which were sent to the central control room at Bhubaneswar. The weather office declared a