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 …
Sure, summers in the city are typically hot. But this seems a little more intense than most, and something similar happened just last year. That's the question increasingly being asked by communities around the world as droughts, heatwaves and floods bring devastation to their door. For a long time, climate …
The Fire and Disaster Management Agency said Tuesday that 2,904 people were taken to hospital nationwide in May due to heat exhaustion. Of those, three people died in Yamagata, Nagano and Aichi prefectures. Temperatures soared in May in many parts of Japan. The Japan Meteorological Agency said that temperatures in …
Under a worst case scenario in the long run, urban areas of Delhi, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Mumbai and Kolkata are projected to experience the highest absolute increases in the heat related mortality by 2080s, says a study by the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIM-A). Titled 'Predicted Increases in Heat related …
A potential decline in irrigation due to groundwater depletion or insufficient surface water would not only directly affect agriculture, but also could alter surface climate. In this study we investigated how loss of irrigation affects heat wave frequency, duration, and intensity across fifteen heat wave indices (HINs) using a regional …
Bhubaneswar: Intense heat wave conditions made a comeback in the State with 14 places recording temperature above 40 degree Celsius on Wednesday. Capital city Bhubaneswar emerged as the hottest place in the State on Wednesday with the highest temperature of 44 degree Celsius. The oppressive heat wave threw normal life …
The sweltering heat wave that has captured the entire South Dinajpur district, caused the death of a middle aged man here, according to locals. The district administration and health department officials have however not confirmed excessive heat as the cause of the man’s (identified as Sushil Mardi) death. “It is …
JAIPUR/JAISALMER: Heat wave conditions aggravated in the state on Monday as a majority of places in the state witnessed maximum temperature above the normal notch. Churu remained hottest in the state where a maximum temperature of 46.5 degrees Celsius was recorded. Except a few places including Barmer and Udaipur, where …
Reeling under the scorching sun, people in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana allege official apathy. For Chinni Shankar Rao and his wife, Lakshmikantamma, it was an intolerable day, with the sun beating down mercilessly on their little kirana shop. The elderly couple from Addanki, a small town in Prakasam district of …
Reeling under the scorching sun, people in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana allege official apathy. For Chinni Shankar Rao and his wife, Lakshmikantamma, it was an intolerable day, with the sun beating down mercilessly on their little kirana shop. The elderly couple from Addanki, a small town in Prakasam district of …
Experimental studies have shown a decrease in driving performance at high temperatures. The epidemiological evidence on the relationship between heat and motor vehicle crashes is not consistent. The objective of the study was to estimate the impact of high ambient temperatures on the daily number of motor vehicle crashes and, …
BHUBANESWAR: Though heat wave condition eased out across Odisha, Bhubaneswar, which recorded 40.3 degree Celsius, remained the hottest city in the State on Thursday. Meanwhile, the toll due to sunstroke climbed to 30 in the State. The IMD has predicted heavy rainfall at one or two places over north Odisha …
Sajana Chaudhary, 50, died of apparent heat stroke in Itahari Bazaar in Sunsari district on Wednesday afternoon, police said. A vegetable vendor, Chaudhary was pulling a cart laden with potatoes during a midday sun when she collapsed. She died shortly after. Heatwave sweeping across the Tarai has affected the daily …
D.S. Pai, head of the Long Range Forecast Division at India Meteorological Department, Pune, says that compared with the previous four decades, the occurrence of heat waves and severe heat waves in the country has increased during 2001-10, the warmest decade for the country and the globe. A significant trend …
Lutyens’ Delhi and hospitals are high risk zones, says latest CSE analysis This is bad news for those suffering from asthma and respiratory problems. It is dangerous if ozone increases even for short duration Rising NOx levels and volatile gases in the air, primarily from vehicles, form the recipe for …
Harmful impacts of global warming such as heat waves and sea level rise are mounting and show a need for a "radical transition" to a greener economy, a study presented at U.N. climate talks said on Tuesday. Damage is growing even though average temperatures have risen only 0.85 degree Celsius …
Ninety more deaths were reported from Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Orissa due to the heat wave, raising the nationwide toll to 2338 even as some places like Delhi got respite on Monday from the sweltering weather because of the overcast sky and scattered rainfall. Andhra Pradesh reported death of 42 …
India is baking! The heat is on as most parts of India are reeling under a severe heat wave with temperatures hovering at over 45 degrees Celsius, and more than a thousand people have died because of the continuing heat wave, which is unprecedented in its spread all across the …
New Delhi: The current heatwave gripping India is the fifth deadliest ever in the world, as per a report in a leading Daily. Also, it is the second deadliest in India, the Daily said, quoting an international database of disasters. Before this the worst was in 1998 when 2,541 people …
Despite hopes that weekend thundershowers would help end a raging heatwave in southern India, the rain brought only limited relief as the death toll since mid-April approached 2,200. Officials said on Sunday the intense heat was likely to continue for another day in the worst hit states of Andhra Pradesh …
Environment and agriculture experts have said that the state is least prepared to handle any more natural calamities if they arise. After the semi-drought last year and unseasonal rainfalls this year that destroyed standing crops and fruits, the government has made no attempts to plan for a catastrophe if one …
