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Heat, wildfires, floods make summer of 2023 'a summer of extremes'
The summer of 2023 is "a summer of extremes" due to the scorching heat, wildfires and floods that have resulted in major damage to people's health and...
Heat, soap, alcohol treatment effective against Covid variants
19 May 2021 4:22 PMCovid-19 variants have a similar surface stability as the wild type virus under laboratory conditions, but can be effectively eliminated by...
Global warming responsible for one in three heat-related deaths, study...
1 Jun 2021 5:24 AMBetween 1991 and 2018, more than a third of all deaths in which heat played a role were attributable to human-induced global warming, according to a...
Blistering heat sweeps Haryana, parts of Punjab
1 July 2021 2:16 PMBlistering heat swept Haryana and parts of Punjab on Thursday, with Gurugram sizzling at 44.6 degrees Celsius.
Chennai to combat extreme heat with UN’s urban cooling programme
5 April 2022 10:00 PMThe Greater Chennai Corporation is all set to launch the urban cooling programme to implement initiatives that’d reduce the overall temperature of the...
Chennai feels the heat as climate change makes presence felt
22 April 2022 1:11 AMDr S Balachandran, Deputy Director-General of Meteorology, Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai said the impact of climate change on rainfall...
Expect heat to go up as SW monsoon begins next week
14 May 2022 1:01 AMThe weather experts said the southwest monsoon will start next week, so the temperature will gradually surge.