Climate change likely to cause 2.5 lakh additional deaths per year: WHO
8 years, 8 months ago

Climate change likely to cause 2.5 lakh additional deaths per year: WHO

India TV News  

New Delhi: Climate change is likely to cause over 2.5 lakh additional deaths per year between 2030 and 2050, World Health Organisation has said in a report. These deaths will be caused due to malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress, it said, adding that climate change is expected to increase the frequency and intensity of drought at regional and global scale. However, it said that climate change may cause fewer winter deaths in temperate climates and increase food production in certain areas. Extreme high air temperatures contribute directly to deaths from cardiovascular and respiratory disease, particularly among elderly people, it said.

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Health implications of climate crisis in India
3 weeks, 2 days ago

Health implications of climate crisis in India

Hindustan Times  

Doctors at the Gorakhpur All India Institute of Medical Sciences are a worried lot. The signal is clear, human skin is progressively unable to bear the extreme heat of the sun The doctors at AIIMS Gorakhpur have extensively analysed patients’ data for the days between April and August 2024. Recently, Global Climate & Health Alliance’s executive director Jenny Miller stated …

Extreme Weather Events Have Cost India $180Bn Since 1993, Report On Climate Change Says
1 month, 1 week ago

Extreme Weather Events Have Cost India $180Bn Since 1993, Report On Climate Change Says

ABP News  

Climate Change: India is among the 10 countries most affected by extreme weather events between 1993 and 2022, says a new report that seeks to highlight the perils of insufficient mitigation and adaptation measures to tackle climate change and its impacts. According to the Climate Risk Index 2025, released on Wednesday by the Bonn-based environmental NGO Germanwatch, nearly 800,000 people …

India 7th most vulnerable country to climate change: Economic Survey
1 month, 3 weeks ago

India 7th most vulnerable country to climate change: Economic Survey

India Today  

As global environmental agencies declared 2024 the hottest year on record and countries faced extreme weather events, India is no different. The Economic Survey tabled in Parliament identified India as the seventh most vulnerable country to climate change, highlighting the country's susceptibility to extreme weather events, slow onset phenomena like sea-level rise, biodiversity loss, and growing water insecurity. Given India's …

Human impact exposed: 41 days of ‘dangerous’ heat linked to climate change in 2024, says report
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Human impact exposed: 41 days of ‘dangerous’ heat linked to climate change in 2024, says report

Live Mint  

Human-caused climate change added an average of 41 days of dangerous heat in 2024, harming human health and ecosystems, an analysis for a year-in-review has found. Among other key findings, the report revealed that climate change intensified 26 of the 29 weather events studied by World Weather Attribution that killed at least 3700 people and displaced millions. The result highlights …

Climate Change and You: Food Price Shocks
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Climate Change and You: Food Price Shocks

Live Mint  

Dear Reader, Earlier this month, I travelled for a few days in Nashik, India’s grape and wine capital. The news in brief -The ways climate change impacts the lives of people can be very different, but in 2024, these impacts were everywhere, from polling agents dying of heatstroke during the Lok Sabha elections to hundreds killed in landslides in Kerala’s …

Climate change added 41 days of dangerous heat around world in 2024
2 months, 3 weeks ago

Climate change added 41 days of dangerous heat around world in 2024

Associated Press  

People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024. “The finding is devastating but utterly unsurprising: Climate change did play a role, and often a major role …

Climate change adds 41 extra days of dangerous heat globally in 2024
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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Climate change adds 41 extra days of dangerous heat globally in 2024

India Today  

People around the world suffered an average of 41 extra days of dangerous heat this year because of human-caused climate change, according to a group of scientists who also said that climate change worsened much of the world’s damaging weather throughout 2024. “The finding is devastating but utterly unsurprising: Climate change did play a role, and often a major role …

Climate change is now a real and pressing economic threat
3 months ago

Climate change is now a real and pressing economic threat

Live Mint  

New Delhi: Climate change is no longer just affecting lives. “We must reduce emissions because a country like India needs a stable climate to ensure growth. Cross-border tariffs Climate change may disrupt global trade and economic development around as developed economies in the European Union are coming up with measures like the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, a policy tool to …

Cold weather deaths are on the rise. Climate change could make people more susceptible
3 months ago

Cold weather deaths are on the rise. Climate change could make people more susceptible

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Cold weather deaths more than doubled between 1999 and 2022, with the largest increases occurring after 2016 - when …

Symposium explores impact of climate change on health
3 months, 3 weeks ago

Symposium explores impact of climate change on health

The Hindu  

Climate change has an impact not only on infectious diseases such as dengue and malaria but also on chronic diseases. The planet is heating, and more heatwaves could increase the chance of heart attacks, strokes, and kidney diseases, impact sleep and mental health, raising the need to find practical solutions to help the communities most impacted, according to Anushka Patel, …

Optimizing climate health adaptation policies
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4 months ago

Optimizing climate health adaptation policies

China Daily  

At the just-concluded UN Climate Change Conference, or COP29, in Baku, Azerbaijan, health amid climate change was a prominent subject of discussion. Climate change does pose a serious threat to the health and wellbeing of people around the globe, because it is responsible for the increasing extreme weather events such as extreme heat, floods and forest fires. According to a …

Terrifying study predicts exactly how many people will DIE from climate change by 2100
4 months ago

Terrifying study predicts exactly how many people will DIE from climate change by 2100

Daily Mail  

A terrifying new study has predicted exactly how many people will die from climate change by 2100. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry used advanced numerical simulations to estimate the mortality attributable to air pollution and extreme temperatures. Their analysis indicates that a staggering 30 million people could perish by the end of the century thanks to climate …

Heat, air pollution, disease: Here's how climate change affects health
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Heat, air pollution, disease: Here's how climate change affects health

Hindustan Times  

Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an already vast yet rising threat to the health of humans around the world, experts warn. Extreme heat The EU's climate monitor said this week that 2024 is "virtually certain" to surpass last year to become the hottest year in recorded history. Out of …

Heat, air pollution, disease: How climate change affects health
4 months, 2 weeks ago

Heat, air pollution, disease: How climate change affects health

New Indian Express  

PARIS: Record-breaking heat, extreme weather events, air pollution and the spread of infectious disease: climate change poses an already vast yet rising threat to the health of humans around the world, experts warn. "Climate change is making us sick, and urgent action is a matter of life and death," the World Health Organization warned this week. Extreme heat The EU's …

India should rely on itself to tackle the environmental challenges it must
4 months, 2 weeks ago

India should rely on itself to tackle the environmental challenges it must

Live Mint  

That changing the behaviour of populations is a nigh-impossible task was visible, once again, during Diwali. When political leaders themselves ignore a key institution, posit environmental action as anti-religious and undermine established scientific research on the deadly effects of a ‘temporary’ surge in pollution levels, it is not surprising that profit-seeking cracker sellers and people—who are healthy and prioritize enjoyment, …

Heat, Health and Economic Toll Escalate in India as Climate Crisis Grips the Nation
4 months, 3 weeks ago

Heat, Health and Economic Toll Escalate in India as Climate Crisis Grips the Nation

New Indian Express  

India is grappling with the harsh realities of climate change, with heat, health, and economic impacts escalating. The country is facing a 50% increase in potential labour hours lost to extreme heat since the 1990s, with economic losses valued at $141 billion in 2023. Rising sea levels threaten around 18.1 million Indians living less than a metre above sea level, …

India experiences the second hottest period since 1970 due to climate change
6 months, 1 week ago

India experiences the second hottest period since 1970 due to climate change

The Hindu  

The months of June, July, and August 2024 recorded India’s second-hottest season since 1970, a report titled, People Exposed to Climate Change: June-August 2024 released on Wednesday by climate experts at Climate Central said. “Over 20.5 million people experienced high temperatures exceptionally influenced by climate change for at least 60 days in the past three months, making India the Southern …

Are climate change deaths increasing? Here's why experts expect humans to adapt to our heating world
8 months ago

Are climate change deaths increasing? Here's why experts expect humans to adapt to our heating world

Salon  

Climate change poses a major existential threat to humanity, meaning billions of people could die as the planet becomes too hot and unstable to live. "If we don’t adapt, heat wave mortality will increase sharply," Michael Wehner, a senior scientist in the Computational Research Division at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, told Salon. Martin Siegert, a glaciology professor at the …

India’s deadly heat kills over 200 people, including dozens of poll workers as elections wrap up
9 months, 3 weeks ago

India’s deadly heat kills over 200 people, including dozens of poll workers as elections wrap up

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy Over 200 people, including dozens of workers on election duty, have died in the last …

Need to hasten climate action as temps break records
9 months, 3 weeks ago

Need to hasten climate action as temps break records

New Indian Express  

The unprecedented rise in temperatures across north India—especially in Delhi, which recorded a historical high of 52.9°C on Wednesday—has given a glimpse into the dire future caused by human-induced climate change. The increased emission of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide produced by human activities are creating the effect of trapping heat and raising temperatures on …

India reports first heat-related death this year
9 months, 3 weeks ago

India reports first heat-related death this year

Al Jazeera  

A labourer dies of a heatstroke in New Delhi as parts of the city record 52.9 degrees Celsius. Extreme temperatures across India are having their worst impact in the country’s teeming megacities, experts have warned, as its capital reported its first death this season due to record-breaking heat. Due to the rising temperature, New Delhi’s Lieutenant Governor Vinai Kumar Saxena …

Weatherman signals a nasty summer ahead for India
11 months, 2 weeks ago

Weatherman signals a nasty summer ahead for India

Live Mint  

NEW DELHI : Climate change will accelerate the intensity and frequency of extreme weather events, India’s top weatherman warned, on the backdrop of the country witnessing a far higher number of intensely heavy rainfall and heatwave days, fewer colder days and increasing thunderstorms in recent times. “We are noticing extreme behaviour in weather," India Meteorological Department director-general Mrutyunjay Mohapatra said …

Climate crisis may kill 14.5 million people and inflict USD 12.5 trillion economic loss by 2050
1 year, 2 months ago

Climate crisis may kill 14.5 million people and inflict USD 12.5 trillion economic loss by 2050

New Indian Express  

The analysis is based on scenarios developed by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change on the most likely trajectory for the planet’s rising average temperature -- 2.5°C to 2.9°C over pre-industrial levels.Shyam Bishen, Head, Centre for Health and Healthcare and member of the Executive Committee, World Economic Forum, warned: “Over the next decade, the failure to mitigate and adapt to …

One BILLION people will die from climate change by 2100, study claims
1 year, 6 months ago

One BILLION people will die from climate change by 2100, study claims

Daily Mail  

World's richest will cause mass death - mostly poor people in developing nations Scientists have given a terrifying prediction about the future of humanity on this planet. According to experts in Canada, one billion people – one eighth of the current global population – will die due to climate change if global warming reaches or exceeds 3.6°F by 2100. UNICEF …

As temperatures soared in Europe last year, so did heat-related deaths
1 year, 8 months ago

As temperatures soared in Europe last year, so did heat-related deaths

LA Times  

A member of F Company Scots Guards stands at attention during the Changing of the Guard ceremony at Buckingham Palace in London during a heat wave last summer. Scientists say crushing temperatures that blanketed Europe last summer may have led to more than 61,000 heat-related deaths, highlighting the need for governments to address the health impacts of global warming. But …

How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions
1 year, 10 months ago

How a temperature rise of 2 degrees Celsius impacts billions

Hindustan Times  

About 2 billion people will live in hazardous heat conditions by the end of the century if climate policies continue on their current trajectory, according to new research published in the Nature Sustainability journal. Limiting warming to the lower Paris accord target of 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels would still expose 400 million people to dangerous heat levels by …

Climate change increasing risk of new emerging viruses, infectious diseases in India
1 year, 10 months ago

Climate change increasing risk of new emerging viruses, infectious diseases in India

The Hindu  

Changing climatic conditions, particularly temperature and moisture variations following events such as extreme rainfall in some places and drought in others, will lead to a surge in the spread of vector-borne and infectious diseases across India, say scientists. A study published last year in the journal Nature predicted that climate change will vastly increase the risk of new viruses infecting …

World Earth Day: Climate change has significant implications for health, food security, and livelihoods in India
1 year, 11 months ago

World Earth Day: Climate change has significant implications for health, food security, and livelihoods in India

Firstpost  

Multidimensional nature of the relationship between climate change and associated reverberations makes it very difficult for India to address it, especially in the context of its socio-economically vulnerable population The Sixth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change emphasised that the global surface temperature will exceed the targets of 1.5 C and 2 C above pre-industrial levels set …

Climate Change Impact: What Makes Elderly Population In India Particularly Vulnerable And How To Protect Them
1 year, 11 months ago

Climate Change Impact: What Makes Elderly Population In India Particularly Vulnerable And How To Protect Them

ABP News  

Climate change has become a significant concern for people worldwide, with its effects being felt in various sectors and on different groups of people, including the elderly population. How To Protect Vulnerable Seniors from Climate Change Impacts Senior citizens face unique challenges in climate change, as they are often more vulnerable due to limited mobility, chronic health conditions, and reduced …

Is climate change affecting global health?
2 years, 4 months ago

Is climate change affecting global health?

The Hindu  

The story so far: Even as countries are meeting at the ongoing Climate Change Conference in Egypt, a recent report by Lancet, has traced in detail the intimate link between changing weather events and their impact on the health of people. The 2022 Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels points out that …

How the warming climate is affecting health in India | In Focus podcast
2 years, 4 months ago

How the warming climate is affecting health in India | In Focus podcast

The Hindu  

Ahead of the 2022 United Nations Climate Change Conference, or COP27, which is scheduled to be held in Egypt next week, medical journal The Lancet released a report, The Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels An India factsheet based on the report, reveals alarming numbers: heat-related deaths increased by 55% over the …

Heat-linked deaths increased by 68% in populations above 65 years: Lancet report
2 years, 4 months ago

Heat-linked deaths increased by 68% in populations above 65 years: Lancet report

The Hindu  

Days of extreme heat are increasing in intensity and frequency due to the effects of climate change, an analysis of data from 103 countries showed in a recent Lancet report. The recently published report called Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: health at the mercy of fossil fuels has stated that due to rapidly increasing temperatures, vulnerable populations such …

Rising temperatures hold a dire warning
2 years, 4 months ago

Rising temperatures hold a dire warning

Hindustan Times  

Days before the crucial United Nations-led climate meet COP27 begins in Egypt, a stark warning has been issued on the debilitating impact of rising temperatures on human health. According to the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change: Health at the Mercy of Fossil Fuels, released on Tuesday, India reported 20,000 heat-related deaths in adults above 65 annually between 2000 …

Heat-Related Deaths Increased By 55% In India, Says Lancet Study
2 years, 4 months ago

Heat-Related Deaths Increased By 55% In India, Says Lancet Study

News 18  

Warning that health is at the mercy of fossil fuels, from 2000-2004 to 2017-2021 heat-related deaths increased by 55 per cent in India, the 2022 Lancet Countdown report said on Wednesday. In the run-up to the UN Climate Conference in Egypt, the new findings presented in the seventh annual global report of the Lancet Countdown on Health and Climate Change …

Warming may lead to more frequent, longer-lasting droughts in India: Study
2 years, 5 months ago

Warming may lead to more frequent, longer-lasting droughts in India: Study

Deccan Chronicle  

New Delhi: Rising global temperatures may lead to more frequent and longer-lasting droughts in India, while posing significant risks to people and ecosystems around the world, according to a study. In the 1.5 degrees Celsius warming scenario, the drought probability is projected to triple in Brazil and China, nearly double in Ethiopia and Ghana, increase slightly in India, and substantially …

69% Indians see severe effects of climate change: Survey
2 years, 6 months ago

69% Indians see severe effects of climate change: Survey

The Hindu  

Around two-thirds of people in India say climate change has already had a severe effect in the areas where they live and it is likely that their families will be displaced from their homes in the next 25 years, according to a new survey conducted for the World Economic Forum. On an average, more than half of all adults surveyed …

69 pc people in India seeing severe effects of climate change: Survey
2 years, 6 months ago

69 pc people in India seeing severe effects of climate change: Survey

Deccan Chronicle  

NEW DELHI: Around two-thirds of people in India say climate change has already had a severe effect in the areas where they live and it is likely that their families will be displaced from their homes in the next 25 years, according to a new survey conducted for the World Economic Forum. On an average, more than half of all …

New Study Warns of Dangerously High Heat Levels in India as Global Emissions Rise in Coming Decades
2 years, 6 months ago

New Study Warns of Dangerously High Heat Levels in India as Global Emissions Rise in Coming Decades

News 18  

Many people living in tropical regions like India are likely to be exposed to “dangerously high” heat levels during most days of each typical year in the coming decades, warn scientists in their latest study on impact of climate change. “In the tropics and subtropics, where the dangerous Heat Index threshold was typically exceeded on less than 15% of the …

Hot nights due to climate change could increase death rate up to 60 per cent across world, study warns
2 years, 7 months ago

Hot nights due to climate change could increase death rate up to 60 per cent across world, study warns

The Independent  

The risk of death from excessively hot nights could increase nearly six-fold by the end of the century, according to a new study that explains how rising night-time temperatures due to climate change may disrupt the human body’s physiology. Scientists, including those from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in the US, say disruption of sleep in people …

Climate change may increase mortality rate due to excess heat by six times: Lancet study
2 years, 7 months ago

Climate change may increase mortality rate due to excess heat by six times: Lancet study

The Hindu  

Climate change may increase the mortality rate due to excessive heat six times by the end of the century, according to a modelling study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal. "However, in our study, we found that the occurrences of hot night excess are projected to occur more rapidly than the daily mean temperature changes," Mr. Zhang said. "A …

Clear the Air, Pollution is Cutting Avg Indian Life Expectancy by 5 Years, Delhi’s by 10: Report
2 years, 9 months ago

Clear the Air, Pollution is Cutting Avg Indian Life Expectancy by 5 Years, Delhi’s by 10: Report

News 18  

The deadly impact of air pollution is most prominent in South Asia, especially India, where residents are expected to lose about five years of their lives on an average, if the current high levels of pollution persist. Due to South Asia’s high population and pollution concentrations, the region accounts for 52% of total life years lost globally due to particulate …

More than 1.2bn people face potentially fatal health risks from extreme heat, report says
2 years, 10 months ago

More than 1.2bn people face potentially fatal health risks from extreme heat, report says

The Independent  

Sign up to the Independent Climate email for the latest advice on saving the planet Get our free Climate email Get our free Climate email SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Read our privacy policy More than 1.2bn urban and rural poor people are at high risk from extreme heat …

Indians losing 1.51 years of life on average to pollution: Health Effects Institute study
3 years ago

Indians losing 1.51 years of life on average to pollution: Health Effects Institute study

Hindustan Times  

On an average Indians lose 1.51 years of their life to air pollution, according to a report by the US-based Health Effects Institute. In a separate report, the institute also said that 93% of India’s population lived in areas where air pollution was nearly seven times of the World Health Organisation standards. As per the second report released, titled ‘How …

‘Delay means death’: New climate report issues stark warnings
3 years ago

‘Delay means death’: New climate report issues stark warnings

Al Jazeera  

World has a ‘brief and rapidly closing window’ to stem the worst effects of climate change, latest UN report warns. Climate change is likely going to make the world sicker, hungrier, poorer and way more dangerous by 2040 with an “unavoidable” increase in risks, and there remained only “a brief and rapidly closing window of opportunity to secure a liveable …

Climate InFact: Can climate change affect your health?
3 years, 4 months ago

Climate InFact: Can climate change affect your health?

The Independent  

What are the health effects of climate change? From extreme heat to worsening hunger and water shortages, accelerating climate change will have a far reaching impact on health, experts have said. The WHO estimates that between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause around 250, 000 additional deaths per year, from malnutrition, malaria, diarrhoea and heat stress. Andy …

Over 7 lakh yearly deaths in India linked to abnormal temperatures: Lancet study
3 years, 8 months ago

Over 7 lakh yearly deaths in India linked to abnormal temperatures: Lancet study

The Hindu  

Nearly 740,000 access deaths in India annually can be attributed to abnormal hot and cold temperatures related to climate change, according to a study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal. The study, the first to definitively link non-optimal temperatures to annual increases in mortality, found 9.43 per cent of global deaths could be attributed to cold and hot temperatures. …

Abnormal temperatures cause excess deaths in India every year
3 years, 8 months ago

Abnormal temperatures cause excess deaths in India every year

Live Mint  

New Delhi, Jul 8 Nearly 740,000 excess deaths in India annually can be attributed to abnormal hot and cold temperatures related to climate change, according to a study published in The Lancet Planetary Health journal. The study, the first to definitively link non-optimal temperatures to annual increases in mortality, found 9.43 per cent of global deaths could be attributed to …

India may have lost 3% of its GDP due to global warming
3 years, 9 months ago

India may have lost 3% of its GDP due to global warming

Hindustan Times  

India may have already lost 3% of its gross domestic product on account of global warming of 1 degree Celsius over pre-industrial levels, and risks losing 10% of its GDP in the extreme scenario of a 3 degree Celsius increase, which would lead to a rise in sea levels, a decline in agricultural productivity, and increased health expenditure, according to …

Climate Change Caused One-third of Heat Deaths in Last Three Decades, Study Reveals
3 years, 9 months ago

Climate Change Caused One-third of Heat Deaths in Last Three Decades, Study Reveals

News 18  

Human-induced climate change is responsible for nearly a third or 37 percent of heat deaths in the last three decades, according to a study led by an international team of researchers. The study, published in the Nature Climate Change, used information on heat deaths and temperature readings to build computer models that calculated how many deaths could be attributed to …

Study blames global warming for over 1 in 3 heat-related deaths
3 years, 9 months ago

Study blames global warming for over 1 in 3 heat-related deaths

Al Jazeera  

More than one-third of the world’s heat deaths each year are directly due to global warming, according to the latest study to calculate the human cost of climate change. Dozens of researchers who looked at heat deaths in 732 cities around the globe from 1991 to 2018 calculated that 37 percent were caused by higher temperatures from human-caused warming, according …

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