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Gujarat: BSF officer, jawan die due to extreme heat exposure during...
The current temperatures in the Rann of Kutch and Harami Nallah areas is between 34 and 36 degrees Celsius with humidity levels as high as 80 to 82...
Over 43mn kids displaced by floods, storms, droughts, wildfires...
7 Oct 2023 5:45 AMAccording to the new Unicef report, the figure works out to 20,000 children displaced every single day due to extreme weather fueled by climate...
Peru prolongs state of emergency due to extreme weather
4 Oct 2023 9:30 AMThe emergency measure, which applies to 855 districts in 18 departments, aims to continue implementing immediate and necessary measures and actions to...
Heat waves becoming more frequent, deadly, study finds
29 Aug 2023 3:54 AMThe study, published in the journal Nature Communications, found that Europe will be particularly affected.
B’desh records 520,758 deaths due to extreme weather since 1970: WMO
24 May 2023 6:08 AM“Asia accounted for 47 per cent of all reported deaths worldwide, with tropical cyclones being the leading cause of reported deaths. Tropical cyclone...
Extreme Weather: Logic of risking lives to save homes
22 July 2021 7:35 PMIn December 2019, Jack Egan watched his home in the Australian beachside settlement of Rosedale go up in flames. Despite orders from authorities to...
Alternative Energy Challenges: Hydropower’s tryst with extreme weather
29 Aug 2021 7:50 PMFor many years, the thinking around the use of hydropower as a clean energy source has been that once built, a plant can reliably generate electricity...
When the Alps broke into a cold sweat
27 July 2022 7:03 PMThe UK’s Met Office remarked that such extremes of temperature will now be a mainstay of life in the country, which was ill-prepared to mitigate such...