A recently published report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has made an assessment of the extreme climate events. Their past trends, future projections and vulnerability and adaptation
This publication illustrates the results of a study conducted under the Climate and Disaster Resilience Initiative (CDRI) in Chennai City, India. It assesses the city's vulnerability to climate-related hazards (e.g.
Natural disasters have killed nearly five times more people in 2003 than they did last year, partly due to the earthquake in Iran and the summer's heat wave in central Europe, the world's top
Ahmedabad: A seven-day-old boy, who is yet to be named, is hooked to the ventilator, fighting for life. He has suffered serious damage to his kidneys and is on dialysis. The infant has not suffered any infection or congenital damage, he is a victim of the recent heat wave that has already claimed nearly 50 lives in the city in less than a week.
Europe is warming up more quickly than the rest of the world, and cold winters could disappear almost entirely by 2080 as a result of global warming, researchers predicted. Heat waves and floods are
Washington: Last month was the hottest June ever recorded on Earth, the United States
The year 2014 is on track to be one of the hottest, if not the hottest, on record, according to preliminary estimates by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO). This is largely due to record high
Northern Europe may have missed out on a heat wave this July, but other parts of the hemisphere have sweltered. From Canada Spain, temperatures reached into the high 30sand 40s Celsius, in some
The Global Climate Risk Index 2015 analyses to what extent countries have been affected by the impacts of weather-related loss events (storms, floods, heat waves etc.). The most recent data available –
Don't think no record was broken at the Eden dust bowl while you were baking in the stands yesterday: the Calcutta temperature breached a decade-old barrier. When the mercury bubbled up to 39.6
This document investigates how we can reduce the impact of extreme weather today while preparing ourselves for future changes, and what we can do to build our resilience. The authors explore these and
The fight against global warming should move to the top of the world’s political agenda and the European Union has to lead the shift to climate-friendly policies, Denmark’s Climate Minister Martin Lidegaard
Climate change could take malaria and other diseases to Britain and trigger more frequent heatwaves that will have huge health impacts, British doctors said. With the exception of Lyme disease, insect-borne diseases are largely unknown in Britain. But global warming could change that in a few decades, according to a report from the British Medical Association (BMA).
Climate change will affect the health of urban populations. It represents a range of environmental hazards and will affect populations where the current burden of climate-sensitive disease is high
Leaders of a fledgling U.N. green fund agreed at a first meeting on Saturday to pick a headquarters this year as part of a plan to oversee billions of dollars in aid to help developing nations fight global
Alarmed over the death of a large number of peacocks in Uttar Pradesh due to soaring heat, the state forest department has stepped in to fill up water bodies dried up by the scorching summer heat.
DURGAPUR, 1 JUNE: The last surviving leopard in Ramana Bagan Zoological Park in the Burdwan forest range died today (See photo). It was gasping for life and according to the veterinary surgeons supervising the inquest:
Chandigarh: Extreme heat conditions in the northern region have caused leaves of cotton crops in Punjab to burn, which has given rise to fears of a low crop yield at the maturing stage.
The heatwave claimed seven lives in Gujarat while northern belt continued to reel under intense hot conditions on Sunday with the mercury shooting above the 45degree mark at several places.
NASA climatologist James Hansen made headlines during the US heatwave of 1988, declaring in testimony to Congress and during interviews on prime-time television that a build-up of greenhouse gases was
