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• Heat wave, water-power crisis disrupt life in northern dists

  Weary of the scorching heat, buffalos stream in towards the Padma River to quench their thirst and have a relishing bath. The persisting heat wave, coupled with power load shedding and water crisis have disrupted life in northern districts. The hear wave may continue a couple of days more, weather men said yesterday. The mercury rose to 39.4 degrees Celsius in Rajshahi while humidity in air was recorded at 12 per cent yesterday, sending people on streets panting for water and cool air.

  • 21/04/2008

  • Daily Star (Bangladesh)
  • • Water Supply
    • Electricity
    • Bangladesh

• Demand rises for tanker water with reservoirs fast running dry

  With parts of Maharashtra reeling under a heat wave, rural areas of the State are, facing scarcity of drinking water and the demand for providing water through tanker is on the rise, official sources

  • 22/04/2002

  • Free Press Journal (Mumbai)
  • • Dams
    • Irrigation

• On climate variability and civil war in Asia

  Effects of climate change are frequently claimed to be responsible for widespread civil violence. Yet, scientists remain divided on this issue, and recent studies suggest that conflict risk increases with

  • 22/01/2014

  • Climatic Change
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Conflicts
    • Asia
    • Africa
    • India
    • Drought
    • Heat Waves
    • Food Security
    • Food Prices
    • Developing Countries
    • Migration
    • Poverty
    • Politics

• Health and climate change: policy responses to protect public health

  <p>According to this research published in the journal The Lancet, climate change poses a potentially &ldquo;catastrophic risk&rdquo; to public health due to increased risk of the spread of disease, food insecurity and air pollution among many other things.&nbsp;</p>

  • 23/06/2015

  • Lancet Commissions
  • • Climate Change
    • Health Effects
    • Climate Impacts
    • Heart Diseases
    • Respiratory Diseases
    • Fossil Fuels
    • Coal
    • Renewable Energy
    • Natural Gas
    • Lifestyles
    • PM 2.5
    • Non Communicable Diseases
    • India
    • Green House Gases
    • Natural Disasters
    • Droughts
    • Floods
    • Storms
    • Heat Waves
    • Global Warming
    • Black Carbon
    • Malnutrition
    • Infectious Diseases
    • Climate Adaptation

• Terrestrial essential climate variables for climate change assessment, mitigation and adaptation

  This report reviews the terrestrial Essential Climate Variables (ECVs), which are endorsed by the UNFCCC and the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). Details are provided on why these observations are needed to understand the causes of climate change, analyse the potential impacts, evaluate the adaptation options and enable characterization of extreme events such as floods, droughts and heat waves.

  • 01/01/2008

  • FAO
  • • Glaciers
    • Lakes
    • Groundwater
    • Reservoirs
    • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Climate Mitigation
    • Biomass
    • Climate Adaptation
    • Global

• Real time contingency planning: initial experiences from AICRPDA

  Agriculture is the source of livelihood for nearly two-thirds of the population in India. A major part of the agriculture is rainfed (~80 out of 142 million ha net cultivated area) and will remain so for

  • 01/12/2013

  • National Initiative on Climate Resilient Agriculture
  • • Climate Change
    • Climate Impacts
    • Agriculture
    • India
    • Droughts
    • Extreme Weather Events
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  Global climate risk index 2014

  <p>This ninth edition of the Global Climate Risk Index analyses to what extent the impacts of weather-related loss events have affected countries around the globe.</p>

  • 12/11/2013

  • Germanwatch
  • • Climate Change
    • Extreme Weather Events
    • Climate Impacts
    • COP 19 (Warsaw)
    • India
    • Global
    • Climate Adaptation

• Explaining extreme events of 2012 from a climate perspective

  This new analysis published by the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society links human-caused climate change to half of 2012′s extreme weather.

  • 01/09/2013

  • American Meteorological Society
  • • Extreme Weather Events
    • Climate Change
    • Heat Waves
    • Atmosphere
    • Rainfall
    • Drought
    • Climate Science
    • Atmosphere Science

• Climatology and trends of summer high temperature days in India during 1969–2013

  Based on the daily maximum air temperature data from 176 stations in India from 1969 to 2013, the climatological distribution of the number of days with high temperature (HT) defined as days with maximum

  • 01/02/2015

  • Journal of Earth System Science
  • • Climate
    • Heat Waves
    • India
    • Global Warming
    • Delhi
    • Mumbai
    • Chennai
    • Jaipur
    • Vishakhapatnam (T)

• Orissas Phet after June 7: Pre-monsoon showers

  BHUBANESWAR: As the South-West monsoon enveloped parts of north-east and Gangetic Himalayas today, one part of Orissa sizzled while another sweated. The north-western and adjoining regions saw mercury shooting past 45 degree Celsius mark while the day temperature continued to drop in coastal Orissa, where humidity levels remained very high.

  • 03/06/2010

  • New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)
  • • Monsoons
    • Natural Disasters
    • Heat Waves
    • Cyclones
    • Orissa (Odisha)
    • Balasore (D)
    • Ganjam
    • New Indian Express (Bhubaneswar)

• Heatwave forces cattle exodus from Rajasthan

  Jaisalmer: Continuing heatwave across swathes of Rajasthan has forced hundreds of cattle-rearers from Jaisalmer and Barmer to migrate to neighbouring states in search of meadows for their livestock. Mercury in the areas bordering Pakistan has shot up to 50 degree C and left scores of people dead.

  • 01/06/2010

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Livestock
    • Cattle
    • Drinking Water Scarcity
    • Natural Disasters
    • Heat Waves
    • Migration
    • Rajasthan
    • Jaisalmer (D)
    • Times Of India (New Delhi)

• Temperature down, but death toll rises

  Ahmedabad: Though there was some respite from heat on Monday, five more people died, taking the death toll in the city due to heat, to 34. When temperature subsided, the winds kicked up a dust storm engulfing the city in a haze on Monday afternoon, making it difficult for commuters on the main roads.

  • 25/05/2010

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)
  • • Natural Disasters
    • Heat Waves
    • Gujarat
    • Ahmedabad (T)
    • Times Of India (New Delhi)

• Birds fall prey to heat in UP

  Sizzling tempera tures and paucity of water has begun to take a toll on the birds in UP. About a dozen peacock deaths have been reported form Etawah district in the past 24 hours and 10 Gray Francolin, popularly known as teetar have also been found dead in the same area. In Allahabad, in Ghoorpur village, half a dozen sparrows were found dead near a well.

  • 25/05/2010

  • Asian Age (New Delhi)
  • • Natural Disasters
    • Heat Waves
    • Wildlife
    • Birds
    • Peacock
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Etawah (D)
    • Asian Age (New Delhi)

• Heat stroke killed peacocks

  Lucknow: The sweltering heat could have caused the death of peacocks in Farrukhabad division of UP forests. The forest officials have recovered two bodies and sent them for post-mortem. The report will come up with exact cause of death. In the meantime, forest officials are sticking to the opinion that peacocks could have died because of heatstroke.

  • 24/05/2010

  • Times of India (Lucknow)
  • • Natural Disasters
    • Heat Waves
    • Wildlife
    • Peacock
    • Uttar Pradesh
    • Farrukhabad (D)
    • Times of India (Lucknow)

• Heat kills four Jain pilgrims in Palitana

  Palitana/ Rajkot: Shock and panic gripped pilgrim town of Palitana when four pilgrims reportedly died of a heat stroke on Sunday morning. The pilgrims were among thousands attending a five-day Jain religion function, Suripat Rajat Jayanti Mahotsav, at the foothills of Shetrunji hills at this Jain pilgrimage in Bhavnagar district.

  • 17/05/2010

  • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
  • • Natural Disasters
    • Heat Waves
    • Gujarat
    • Bhavnagar (D)
    • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)

• Two die of heat stroke in state

  Rajkot/Ahmedabad: Two persons have died due to severe heat in Saurashtra in past 48 hours . On Wednesday, when the entire state of Gujarat experienced the worst heat conditions, a woman died in Rajkot as she was going to fetch water. A man was reportedly killed under similar circumstances in a Surendranagar village on Tuesday.

  • 13/05/2010

  • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)
  • • Natural Disasters
    • Heat Waves
    • Gujarat
    • Rajkot (D)
    • Times Of India (Ahmedabad)

• Assam receives 64 per cent excess rainfall

  JORHAT, April 20: While the rest of the country is reeling under a sweltering heat wave, the rain gods seem to have smiled down on the Northeast by keeping temperatures down. The recent rains have taken Assam from a 30 per cent rainfall-deficit State prior to March 19, 2010 to a 64 per cent excess-rainfall State post March 29, last, till date.

  • 21/04/2010

  • Sentinel (Guwahati)
  • • Atmosphere And Ozone Layer
    • Indian Meteorological Department (IMD)
    • Assam
    • Rainfall

• Hottest April noon at 42C

  Delhiites faced the hottest day of the month with the mercury peaking over 42 degrees Celsius on Thursday. The maximum temperature was recorded at 42.3 degrees Celsius ie six degrees above normal. The maximum temperature raised by 1.1 degrees Celsius as compared to Wednesday's 41.2 degrees. On the other hand, the minimum temperature was recorded at 23.6 degrees, four degrees above normal level.

  • 16/04/2010

  • Pioneer (New Delhi)
  • • Natural Disasters
    • Heat Waves
    • Delhi

• US dawdling over climate change

  Even as Europe reels under an unprecedented heat wave, US President George Bush remains unconvinced about the harsh reality of climate change. On July 24 he launched a 10 year research programme, which will study long term global climate variability and c

  • 30/08/2003

  • Down To Earth
  • • Carbon Dioxide
    • Climate Change
    • Global Warming
    • Kyoto Protocol
    • Research
    • United States Of America (US)

• Quantitative risk assessment of the effects of climate change on selected causes of death, 2030s and 2050s

  <p>According to this new WHO report, climate change is expected to cause approximately 250 000 additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050; 38 000 due to heat exposure in elderly people, 48 000 due to diarrhoea, 60 000 due to malaria, and 95 000 due to childhood undernutrition</p>

  • 22/09/2014

  • World Health Organization
  • • Climate Change
    • Health Effects
    • Floods
    • Diarrhoea
    • Malaria
    • Dengue
    • Nutrition
    • Child Health
    • India
    • Global
    • Climate Adaptation