Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of News Item titled "Containers from sunken ship likely to drift towards Alappuzha, Kollam Coasts in 48 hours: INCOIS" appearing in The Hindu dated 25.05.2025 dated 27/05/2025. The original application was registered suo-motu on the basis of the news item titled …
Climate strongly influences global wildfire activity, and recent wildfire surges may signal fire weather-induced pyrogeographic shifts. Here we use three daily global climate data sets and three fire danger indices to develop a simple annual metric of fire weather season length, and map spatio-temporal trends from 1979 to 2013. We …
Rapid build-up of greenhouse gases is expected to increase Earth’s mean surface temperature, with unclear effects on temperature variability. This makes understanding the direct effects of a changing climate on human health more urgent. However, the effects of prolonged exposures to variable temperatures, which are important for understanding the public …
News media are major channels for the transmission of information to the public and deliver news about the latest developments regarding health issues such as climate change. How the media frame such information may enhance public understanding and enable appropriate responses by individuals and communities. This study follows up on …
The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa Climate Change Cell of the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) said on Monday people in the province were safe from severe heatstroke. However, officials warned if temperatures continued to rise, wildfires could erupt in dry grassy areas, and the threat of flash floods also loomed large. “We know climate …
Germany’s all-time heat record was shattered Sunday when temperatures climbed to 104.5 degrees Fahrenheit, making it the hottest day in Germany since recordkeeping began in 1881, BNO News reported. The temperature was recorded at a weather station in Kitzingen, which is in the southern state of Bavaria, a meteorologist told …
DADU: Six people died from heatstroke on Sunday that also sent another 36 children to the Dadu Civil Hospital as the temperatures rose to 50 degrees Celsius and played havoc with the district’s electric supply system. Most areas of Dadu city remained without electricity for more than 10 hours. People …
Spell of sweltering weather expected to last several days as temperatures hit 40C and UN urges countries to develop better warning systems European countries including France, Spain, Italy and Britain have issued weather alerts and the United Nations has urged countries to create better warning systems as a heatwave sweeping …
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 fears that tracks would buckle in the heat. Ten spectators collapsed at the Henley Royal Regatta and one …
Heat stress at the workplace is an occupational health hazard that reduces labour productivity. Assessment of productivity loss resulting from climate change has so far been based on physiological models of heat exposure. These models suggest productivity may decrease by 11–27% by 2080 in hot regions such as Asia and …
Climate change may lead to more severe and extreme heat waves in the future, but its potential impact on sudden infant death—a leading cause of infant mortality—is unclear. The researchers sought to determine whether risk of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is elevated during hot weather.
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and the World Health Organization (WHO) have issued new joint guidance on Heat–Health Warning Systems to address the health risks posed by heatwaves, which are becoming more frequent and more intense as a result of climate change. Heatwaves are a dangerous natural hazard, and one …
KARACHI / ISLAMABAD: As 16 more people died of heat exhaustion in Karachi on Monday, the climate change ministry set up a committee to look into the causes of the current heatwave and possibly why so many deaths had occurred in the port city this summer. Health authorities have also …
Gaborone — President Lt Gen. Seretse Khama Ian Khama has declared the whole country drought stricken. A press release from the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development stated that this followed findings of the Drought and Household Food Security Outlook conducted from March to April. The assessment indicated that …
As last week’s heatwave death toll in Pakistan’s largest city crossed 1,200, and there was no sign of the monsoon rain promised by the weatherman, some experts warned of another heatwave in the offing. Mercifully, the Pakistan Meteorological Department refuted the claim. After a blistering week, Karachi, a city of …
ISLAMABAD, June 29 (Xinhua) -- The death toll from a heatwave in Pakistan's commercial center Karachi and parts of southern Sindh province has passed 1,000 over the past ten days, health officials said on Monday. Nearly 900 died over the past one week only in Karachi, a city of around …
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 said the state must "ensure that the Dutch emissions in the year 2020 will be …
According to this research published in the journal The Lancet, climate change poses a potentially “catastrophic risk” to public health due to increased risk of the spread of disease, food insecurity and air pollution among many other things. The 2015 Lancet Commission on Health and Climate Change has been formed …
The threat to human health from climate change is so great that it could undermine the last 50 years of gains in development and global health, experts warned on Tuesday. Extreme weather events such as floods and heat waves bring rising risks of infectious diseases, poor nutrition and stress, the …
There is a tremendous desire to attribute causes to weather and climate events that is often challenging from a physical standpoint. Headlines attributing an event solely to either human-induced climate change or natural variability can be misleading when both are invariably in play. The conventional attribution framework struggles with dynamically …
Pakistan's southern province of Sindh is in the grip of an intense heatwave claiming at least 140 lives, most of them falling to heatstroke. Dozens of people are either declared brought dead or die in hospitals after futile medical treatment. Most of the deaths have taken place in Karachi, the …
