HEALTH-INDIA: THOUSANDS OF HEAT-WAVE DEATHS BLAMED ON NEGLECTRanjit Devraj
A man sleeps on his rickshaw on a street in New Delhi, India, amid a deadly heat wave, May 31, 2024.ARUN SANKAR/AFP/Getty The scorching heat has resulted in deaths of more than 50 people across India, most dying of suspected heat stroke and other heat-related symptoms. At least 29...
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Over the past decade, average annual heat wave frequency has increased by 50% globally compared to pre-industrial averages. Parts of the world are getting hit much harder. Studies show the likelihood of extreme heat waves in India and Pakistan, for example, has increased by a staggering 150 ...
Anthropogenic warming has exacerbated atmospheric heatwaves globally, yet the transboundary migration of heatwaves between land and ocean, along with the anthropogenic influence on this process, remain unclear. Here, we employ a Lagrangian tracking appro
One of the direct and unavoidable consequences of global warming-induced rising temperatures is the more recurrent and severe heatwaves. In recent years, even countries like Malaysia seldom had some mild to severe heatwaves. As the Earth's average temper
In the more recent 2013 HW in China, there were at least 5758 HW-related illnesses (Gu et al., 2016; Luo and Lau, 2017a, Luo and Lau, 2017b), while the 2015 Indian HW reported at least 2200 and 2500 deaths in India and Pakistan respectively (NDMA, 2019; NRDC, 2020). In recent...
Extreme heat has led to the deaths of 30 million people in the last three decades (Vicedo-Cabrera et al. 2021). The 2003 European heat wave, for example, killed 70,000 people (Robine et al. 2008). Heat affects both rural and urban populations where there is increasing exposure to ...
deaths and economic damage, United Nations Secretary-GeneralAntónio Guterrescalled forinternational actionto address what hedescribedas our “global boiling.” But protecting vulnerable communities from extreme heat requires deep commitment and significant funding, both of which seem to be in short supply...
Heatwaves are becoming more frequent under climate change and can lead to thousands of excess deaths. Adaptation to extreme weather events often occurs in response to an event, with communities learning fast following unexpectedly impactful events. Using