The study suggests that the CVI underestimates the main risks and threats of heatwaves to the Indian population because it does not include any kind of heat stress measure. This missing element also makes it harder to identify areas of the country, like Delhi and other large urban areas that...
Experts said heat waves would likely escalate in the coming years because of erratic rainfall and high temperatures, posing a threat to Bangladesh, one of the biggest victims of global warming. Dhaka experienced 40.6 C on April 16 last ...
NEW DELHI, June 4 (Xinhua) -- The Indian government has issued a health advisory for people to stay safe in view of the intense heat-wave conditions prevailing in some parts of the country. "Heat-waves can cause adverse effects on human health, including other sectors," the advisory issued...
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For a city like New Delhi, the situation is even worse. In May 2022, it recorded its highest ever temperature of 49 C, beating the record of 45.6 C set on April 29, 1941. China, too, is experiencing intense heat waves. In the previous two months alone, heat waves/high temperatures ...
The heat waves over India are projected to be more intense and occur more frequently in future4. Climatologically heatwaves occur during March to June10,11, with high frequency over north, northwest, central and the eastern coastal regions of India. The heatwaves over India have been linked ...
Last year,severe heat waves killed more than 100 peoplein India and neighboring Pakistan in April and May alone. The scorching temperatures also destroyed hundreds of thousands of acres of crops, affecting millions of people in India's vast agriculture sector. ...
"We saw heat waves even last year and it wasn't blamed on El Niño," Prof. Krishna AchutaRao, a scientist at the Indian Institute of Technology Delhi's Centre for Atmospheric Sciences, told CBS News. Last year,severe heat waves killed more than 100 peoplein India and Pakistan...
Parts of Delhi, Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh experienced one of the worst temperature spikes earlier this year. Even though these heatwaves have been extreme, India was not alone in reeling under them. Globally, the last twelve years have been the hottest in recorded history and the fiv...
A dry bed of a pond amid the ongoing heatwave, in New Delhi, India, June 27, 2022. /CFP 'Nightmarish' conditions Earth has warmed nearly 1.2 degrees Celsius so far and current predictions based on countries' carbon-cutting pledges would see the world far exceed the Paris Ag...