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Tamil Nadu Brace for Extreme Heat as State Warns of Heatwave
2 months, 1 week ago

Tamil Nadu Brace for Extreme Heat as State Warns of Heatwave

The Hindu  

Tamil Nadu is bracing for heatwaves, with temperatures exceeding 40°C in several parts of the state. The government has declared a State-specific disaster, providing relief to people affected by heatwaves, including providing medical assistance and financial aid to those who have lost loved ones to heat-related causes. Tamil Nadu is one of the regions in India that is particularly vulnerable …

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‘International Cooperation is Required to Fight Heatwaves’: Climate Scientist Indu. K. Murthy
5 months, 2 weeks ago

‘International Cooperation is Required to Fight Heatwaves’: Climate Scientist Indu. K. Murthy

The Hindu  

Published : Jul 23, 2024 17:21 IST - 7 MINS READ State governments and the Centre were caught on the back foot as they scrambled to implement heat action plans this summer as parts of India reeled under heatwaves, which killed 58 people in New Delhi alone. Governments must support research and innovation in heat resilience technologies and strategies, given …

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Simple steps to stop people dying from heatwaves
5 months, 4 weeks ago

Simple steps to stop people dying from heatwaves

Hindustan Times  

WHEN A HEATWAVE in Europe killed more than 70,000 people in 2003, it was seen as a once-in-a-millennium event. A passenger drinking water is silhouetted against the sun on a hot summer day at Jalandhar Cantonment railway station in Jalandhar on June 11, 2024 amid heatwave.. A study in the Lancet concluded that there were 345,000 heat-related deaths worldwide in …

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Telangana Gig Workers Union demands national disaster status for heatwave, support systems for workers from NHRC
6 months, 2 weeks ago

Telangana Gig Workers Union demands national disaster status for heatwave, support systems for workers from NHRC

The Hindu  

Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union sought to underscore the effect of the heatwave and its severe effect on gig workers and wrote to the National Human Rights Commission. The Union is demanding that the heatwave be treated as a national disaster and support systems be created for workers. The set of 10 demands include intervention of the State government …

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Greece shuts Acropolis, schools as it braces for 43°C heatwave
6 months, 4 weeks ago

Greece shuts Acropolis, schools as it braces for 43°C heatwave

Al Jazeera  

Greece is one of the European countries most affected by the climate crisis. Greece has shut the site of the ancient Acropolis to tourists, closed schools and stationed medics across Athens as it faces the first heatwave of the summer. Similar conditions were seen last year across much of southern Europe, including Portugal, France, Spain and Italy where fires led …

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Getting ready for heatwaves
7 months, 1 week ago

Getting ready for heatwaves

Hindustan Times  

A crushing heatwave that began more than a week ago has become unbearable since Monday. In Delhi, power consumption surpassed records and desperate families mobbed water tankers after their taps ran dry. A 40-year-old labourer who lived in a room with no air cooling died at a hospital during the week and the administration imposed fines on wasteful use of …

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Heatwave takes a toll but no data on deaths
7 months, 1 week ago

Heatwave takes a toll but no data on deaths

Hindustan Times  

In April, east and southeast peninsular India saw an intense spell of humid heat, and Odisha and West Bengal, one between April 15 and 30, which expanded over days to Bihar, Jharkhand and south peninsular India. {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} {{^userSubscribed}} {{/userSubscribed}} In May, Odisha, Gangetic West Bengal and parts of peninsular India saw an intense spell of heat, Rajasthan, between May …

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Longer, intense heatwaves linked with rise in premature births: Study
7 months, 2 weeks ago

Longer, intense heatwaves linked with rise in premature births: Study

India TV News  

A recent study has established a connection between rising rates of premature births during periods of intense and prolonged heat waves. The researchers found that over the 25-year period, preterm births increased by 2 per cent, while early-term births increased by 1 per cent, following a four consecutive day period during which each day's average temperature was among the hottest …

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Severe Heatwave To Hit Northwest India As Delhi Records Hottest Day At 43.7 °C, Rains Likely In These States
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Severe Heatwave To Hit Northwest India As Delhi Records Hottest Day At 43.7 °C, Rains Likely In These States

News 18  

The weather office on Saturday said that heat wave to severe heat wave conditions are likely to continue over Northwest India for the next five days. The scorching heat is very likely in many pockets over Rajasthan, Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh and Delhi during till May 22 and in some parts of West Uttar Pradesh till May 19. Rainfall Predictions Meanwhile, …

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The value of attributing extreme events to climate change | Explained
7 months, 3 weeks ago

The value of attributing extreme events to climate change | Explained

The Hindu  

Just a couple of decades ago, the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change argued that individual weather events could not be attributed to climate change. The science has since evolved, albeit with all its attendant uncertainties, and now we regularly hear of researchers having been able to attribute some individual extreme events to climate change. Economically developing countries, in particular …

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Climate crisis made crippling April heatwave in South Asia 45 times more likely: Scientists
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Climate crisis made crippling April heatwave in South Asia 45 times more likely: Scientists

The Hindu  

Ms. Annu Mishra kept her modest food stall shut as temperatures in Odisha's Bhubaneswar remained above 40° Celsius for 17 consecutive days in April. Similar heatwaves could occur once every 30 years and they have already become about 45 times more likely due to climate change, leading climate scientists said on May 15, citing historical weather data. The team of …

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Freak April heatwave in Southeast Asia ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis
7 months, 3 weeks ago

Freak April heatwave in Southeast Asia ‘virtually impossible’ without climate crisis

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 The brutal heatwaves sweeping across Asia this year were made much more extreme due to …

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How heatwave will affect the telecom players in India?
8 months ago

How heatwave will affect the telecom players in India?

India TV News  

If you think that heat waves have nothing to do with telecom, then here is something you need to keep an eye on. Over time, summers, heat and heatwaves have become the biggest tension for telecom companies as it has been impacting the ranges from the continuation of mobile services to network expansion. As per the report, experts believe that …

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Nandyal Records India’s Highest Temperature for Third Consecutive Day
8 months ago

Nandyal Records India’s Highest Temperature for Third Consecutive Day

Deccan Chronicle  

Visakhapatnam: Nandyal retained its scorching reign as India's hottest place for the third straight day, recording a temperature of 46°C on Saturday. Parts of Rayalaseema districts and coastal Andhra Pradesh in Andhra Pradesh sweltered under the sun's wrath, with maximum temperatures hovering between a staggering 42°C and 46°C. On Saturday, IMD scientist S. Karuna Sagar pinpointed Anantapur, Kurnool, Nandyal, Kadapa, …

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Is heatwave making you cranky? Impact of extreme heat on moods; how to deal with it
8 months, 1 week ago

Is heatwave making you cranky? Impact of extreme heat on moods; how to deal with it

Hindustan Times  

Feeling angrier and more irritable than usual? As per research extreme heat can have a profound effect on your mental health, leading to increased aggression, suicidal behaviour, depressive tendencies and substance use. “Increasing evidence indicates that ambient outdoor temperature could affect mental health, which is especially concerning in the context of climate change,” says a recent meta-analysis published in the …

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Sea also rises: On understanding the Indian Ocean’s local impact
8 months, 1 week ago

Sea also rises: On understanding the Indian Ocean’s local impact

The Hindu  

India may be roiling in heatwaves but the possibility of a munificent monsoon, as envisaged by the India Meteorological Department, may be contributing to some psychological relief. A recent study led by scientists at the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology, Pune, and other international institutions has forecast — based on expected global carbon emission trends — the likely impact on …

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Disability pensioner in Queensland social housing without air-conditioning fears a fatal heatwave
10 months, 4 weeks ago

Disability pensioner in Queensland social housing without air-conditioning fears a fatal heatwave

ABC  

In short: A Queensland woman and disability pensioner in social housing is concerned the high heat in her apartment is putting her life at risk. A Queensland woman and disability pensioner in social housing is concerned the high heat in her apartment is putting her life at risk. Queensland Housing Minister Meaghan Scanlon is "open to reasonable options" regarding air-conditioning …

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Bob Brown Foundation claims thousands of salmon have died in Tassal pens due to marine heatwave
1 year ago

Bob Brown Foundation claims thousands of salmon have died in Tassal pens due to marine heatwave

ABC  

In short: Environmentalists claim thousands of fish have died at a salmon farm on Tasmania's east coast due to a marine heatwave. Video captured by the Bob Brown Foundation on Wednesday shows a barge with crates of dead salmon onboard parked next to one of Tassal's fish farm pens at Okehampton Bay, near Triabunna. Fish mortality event is 'minor', Tassal …

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How extreme heatwaves affect the human body
1 year, 1 month ago

How extreme heatwaves affect the human body

ABC  

Over the next few months, we'll endure heatwaves in different parts of the country. "If it's hot and humid, your body cannot cope," Dr Perkins-Kirkpatrick says. Research has shown our body can learn to better cope with heat in a matter of weeks, if it's sufficiently exposed to high levels of repeated heat stress, through physiological changes like producing more …

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Explained | How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires in Europe
1 year, 4 months ago

Explained | How climate change drives heatwaves and wildfires in Europe

The Hindu  

Europe is once again battling scorching temperatures this summer, with wildfires blazing across the continent from the Mediterranean to Spain. Every heatwave being experienced today has been hotter and more frequent due to climate change, said Friederike Otto, a climate scientist at Imperial College London who co-leads the World Weather Attribution global research collaboration. Climate change drives wildfires Climate change …

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Explained | Wildfires and heatwaves that scorched through July
1 year, 5 months ago

Explained | Wildfires and heatwaves that scorched through July

The Hindu  

Multiple wildfires have been raging across the Northern Hemisphere in the past month, even as many countries across Europe, Asia and northern America have been experiencing record-high temperatures. At least, 400 firemen battled a fire in the Canary Islands that forced 4,000 people to flee and forced others to wear face masks. Temperatures in Italy touched 47°C on July 24 …

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Name heatwaves after oil companies to shame them, ex-meteorologist says
1 year, 5 months ago

Name heatwaves after oil companies to shame them, ex-meteorologist 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 Former Weather Channel meteorologist Guy Walton has named the heatwaves plaguing the United States after …

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Heatwaves set more records across Europe, Asia and US
1 year, 5 months ago

Heatwaves set more records across Europe, Asia and US

Al Jazeera  

Residents across the globe grapple with scorching temperatures, deadly wildfires and health warnings. Extreme heat was forecast across the globe on Wednesday as firefighters battled blazes in parts of Greece and the Canary Islands while authorities from California to China warned of the health dangers brought by searing temperatures, urging people to drink water and shelter from the sun. The …

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From Algeria to Syria, heatwaves scorch Middle East, North Africa
1 year, 5 months ago

From Algeria to Syria, heatwaves scorch Middle East, North Africa

Al Jazeera  

Wildfires are raging, authorities are having to issue advisory warnings, and some places facing power cuts. Temperatures are soaring worldwide, reaching scorching levels, with the Middle East and North Africa far from spared. Temperatures in some parts of the MENA region are currently the highest in the world, with several countries breaking records, prompting the World Meteorological Organization to issue …

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