Heat on zoo inmates
If the soaring mercury has left humans gasping for breath, animals are suffering no less.
If the soaring mercury has left humans gasping for breath, animals are suffering no less.
The United States has been resisting European calls for industrialized nations to target an upper limit for global warming of 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit), according to a draft summit text.
LUCKNOW: As dry hot westerly winds coming from deserts of Rajasthan continued to lash north India, the state was gripped by a severe heat wave. Almost all the districts of UP recorded hottest day of this summer on Monday.
BHUBANESWAR: With monsoon playing truant and hot dry winds from the desert plains fuelling the summer heat, Bhubaneswar turned into a burning cauldron on Monday recording 44.6 degrees Celsius, highest for the season and 10 degrees above normal. Such was the condition that denizens complained of burning sensation during the peak hours. Only a day before, Bhubaneswar recorded 43 degrees Celsius.
There have been several air circulation disturbances in the recent past. Heat waves have scorched Orissa and West Bengal, while cyclonic storms took shape in the Bay of Bengal. Scientists pore over data to explain the unusual weather, writes Archita Bhatta
Climate change could lead to a rise in average summer temperatures in parts of Britain that is nearly double the level which the European Union and others say is dangerous, a study said on Thursday.
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There is "scarcely an instrument of U.S. foreign policy" that was not vulnerable to climate change, which scientists say will raise sea levels by melting glaciers and ice sheets on Greenland and Antarctica, Kerry, a Democrat, said at a Council on Foreign Relations meeting.
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Japan should shun a "politically inexplicable" option of a rise in greenhouse gas emissions when it sets a 2020 target in coming days, the U.N.'s top climate change official said on Wednesday.
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Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health. These pests and others are expanding their ranges in a warming world, which means people who never had to worry about them will have to start. And they are hardly the only health threats from global warming.
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Hot spell in India kills 80 in eastern India. Heat waves now come earlier and stay longer. This latest special report by Down To Earth team covers the heat struck regions of India to figure out what is happening to the weather.<a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp?foldername=20090531&filename=news&sid=13&sec_id=9" target="blank"> More »</a> See Also:
Hot spell in India kills 80 in eastern India. Heat waves now come earlier and stay longer. This latest special report by Down To Earth team covers the heat struck regions of India to figure out what is happening to the weather.......<a href="http://www.downtoearth.org.in/cover.asp?foldername=20090531&filename=news&sid=13&sec_id=9" target="blank">More»</a> See Also:
Archita Bhatta Scientists pore over data to explain the unusual weather They can
<i>Heat waves follow a dry spell in Orissa and West Bengal, killing 80 people in April. Dust storms take Assam by surprise and Malwa scrambles for water. What
The India Meteorological Department defines heat waves under two categories. The first category includes places where the normal maximum temperature is more than 40
Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health. These pests and others are expanding their ranges in a warming world, which means people who never had to worry about them will have to start. And they are hardly the only health threats from global warming.