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Anthony McMichael on health risks from climate change

<img src="../files/images/20080430/48.jpg" align="left"> ANTHONY MCMICHAEL heads the International Centre for Epidemiology and Population Health at the Australian National University, and is a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. He talks to VIBHA VARSHNEY and MARIO D'SOUZA about the health risks from global environmental changes What are the impacts of climate change on disease outbreaks? 
- 29/04/2008
Extreme weather events over India in the last 100 years

The authors in this paper present a factual and a brief review of the extreme weather events that occurred in India during the last 100 years (1991-2004). The socio-economic impacts of the extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, hail storm, thunderstorm, heat and cold waves have been increasing due to large growth of population and its migration towards urban
- 01/07/2005
- Journal of the Indian Geophysical Union
- - Monsoons
  - Climate Change
  - Natural Disasters
  - Heat Waves
  - Floods
  - Cyclones
  - Extreme Weather Events
  - Storms
  - Drought
  - Migration
  - Urbanisation
  - India
  - Statistics
  - Rainfall
Global climate risk index 2012

More than 710,000 people died as a direct consequence of 14,000 extreme weather events, and losses of more than USD 2.3 trillion occurred from 1991 to 2010 globally reveals the Global
- 01/11/2011
- Germanwatch
Carbon Nanotubes act as antennas

They transmit light, so expanding the limits of tele and optical communication
- 14/12/2004
- Down To Earth
- - Chemical Industry
Disaster management in India

This new report by the Disaster Management Division, Ministry of Home Affairs has detailed information on various types of disasters, institutional framework and policy guidelines in
- 01/08/2011
- Ministry of Home Affairs
Health in the green economy: health co-benefits of climate change mitigation housing sector

 The WHO has launched a report on health co-benefits of climate change mitigation in the housing sector, the first of a new series of reports on health in the green economy.
- 01/06/2011
- World Health Organization
Troubling thaw

After a heat wave scorched Europe this summer, it is the largest ice shelf in the Arctic region that seems to have fallen prey to global warming. At least 3,000 years old, the Ward Hunt ice shelf on
- 30/10/2003
- - Canada
Assam drenched, devastated

After the heat wave the deluge. Flash floods, triggered by torrential rains over the past two weeks, have rendered at least four lakh people homeless in Assam. This at a time when several states in the country have not yet recovered from a severe dry spel
- 14/07/2003
- Down To Earth
- - Brahmaputra
  - Floods
  - Flood Relief
  - Assam
Global Heat

Climatologists say recent heat waves in India are early signs of global warming due to the greenhouse effect. If so, it will only get worse
- 14/06/1999
Report

Heat waves rise steeply in last 50 years : For all the terror that tornadoes and hurricanes bring, the real threat this summer may be the slow and steady heat wave, according to a study. Soaring
- 08/02/2000
- - Environment
Heat blamed for up to 50 deaths in South

The heat wave has been blamed for nearly 50 deaths and for withering crops throughout the South. The heat wave has stretched north into Colorado, but has been particularly deadly across the
- 17/07/1998
- - Health
Searing spell

Current heat wave is not just an aberration, feel experts
- 14/06/2002
- Down To Earth
- - Air Pollution
  - Glaciers
  - Atmosphere
  - Climate Change
  - Research
  - Scientists
  - Antarctica
  - India
  - Andhra Pradesh
  - Delhi
  - Haryana
  - Madhya Pradesh
  - Punjab
  - Rainfall Pattern
Climate risks/opportunities management and decision making: An international initiative between Australia and India

Climatic changes, droughts, floods, heat/cold waves, pests, diseases and poverty dynamics is a complex phenomenon demanding multidisciplinary management of early warning systems, risk assessment, insurance and mitigation.
- 24/05/2006
- Bureau of Rural Sciences
Extreme weather events over India in the last 100 years

India being mainly an agricultural country the economy and further its growth purely depends on the vagaries of the weather and in particular the extreme weather events. The information on extreme weather
- 01/07/2005
- Journal of Indian Geophysical Union
Mercury zooming

Europe is facing its worst heat wave in decades. While the scorching sun has come as a blessing for holidaymakers, widespread crop failure and forest fires have got farmers and the administration
- 14/08/2003
Water, water everywhere...

But not a drop to drink. The heat wave has already killed more than a thousand people all over India. Taps in major metros are running dry. Water bodies are evaporating. Groundwater supplies are
- 29/06/2003
- Down To Earth
Drought in Vietnam hits rice and water

A heat wave and drought hitting parts of central Vietnam have depleted subsistence rice crops and dried up water
- 06/12/1997
- - Environment
Disastrous state

For more than a decade now, Orissa has been reeling under contrasting extreme weather conditions: from heat waves to cyclones; from droughts to floods. Calamities have been visiting the state with alarming regularity.
- 14/10/2001
44 degree C in Andhra as heat wave is on

The coastal rgions of Andhra Pradesh were swept by the heat wave on Wednesday. Heat wave conditions prevailed in four districts of Andhra and it was likely to continue in Krishna, Guntur, Prakasham
- 29/04/1999
- Asian Age (New Delhi)
- - Environment
40 killed in heat wave

At least 40 people, 28 of them in Orissa alone, have died so far due to the heat wave which has tightened its grip over several parts of the country. Intense heat wave has been sweeping Orissa for
- 25/04/1999
- Statesman (New Delhi)
- - Environment