Killer heat wave may strike Orissa again
At a time when the entire north India and eastern India is experiencing temperate climate, heat wave conditions have already come to prevail in Orissa. Unlike last summer when the temperature started
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39 elderly people die during two-day heat wave in China
Hot weather killed 39 people in two days last week in the southern Chinese city of Guangzhou, near Hong Kong, the Beijing Youth Daily reported on Sunday. Temperatures during a six-day heat wave last
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On World Environment Day, CSE warns no one is safe from deadly ozone pollution-- including chief minister Arvind Kejriwal
Lutyens’ Delhi and hospitals are high risk zones, says latest CSE analysis This is bad news for those suffering from asthma and respiratory problems. It is dangerous if ozone increases even for
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New age challenge for women
With each UNFCCC meeting, one is apprised of the galloping pace at which climate change is affecting the planet. Extremes of weather and natural disasters have become commonplace, with devastating floods in Africa and Asia, extreme cold or heat waves in Europe and the spectre of hurricanes in the Americas.
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Cool City warms up to mercury
Subhash Chandra N S, Bangalore, Oct 12, DHNS: Things are hotting up in the City. Several parts of Bangalore are witnessing an increase in the land surface temperature (LST) by as much as two degrees Celcius over the past few years, a study by the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) has claimed.
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Big threat to tourism in global warming
Heat waves, droughts and diseases brought on by global warming could keep tourists away from some of the world's most popular vacation destinations in the coming decades, a report warned. The report,
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Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Contingency plans for farmers to tackle with natural calamities, 29/07/2016
Question raised in Rajya Sabha on Contingency plans for farmers to tackle with natural calamities, 29/07/2016. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research (ICAR) has prepared District Agricultural Contingency
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Heat kills 67 in Bengal in a day
Kolkata: The relentless heat killed 67 more people across West Bengal on Tuesday, six of them in Kolkata, pushing up the death toll to 86 in just two days. Five prize horses also died despite water and
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Heat index: Sitaram Bazar on top, CP & Bhikaji Cama Place also on List of ‘Heat Islands’, says IIT Study
New Delhi: It’s that time of the year when the scorching sun saps the energy out of you. But if you have been feeling hotter in certain parts of the city, blame it on the ‘urban heat island (UHI) effect.’
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Assessing the evolving fragility of the global food system
The world food crisis in 2008 highlighted the susceptibility of the global food system to price shocks. Here we use annual staple food production and trade data from 1992–2009 to analyse the changing properties
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Early heat wave hits wheat crop in Punjab
An unusually-early heat wave has affected wheat yield in Punjab, leaving farmers with an over 20% shortfall in this year's produce. Most have suffered a hefty four to five quintal loss on yield per
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Tragical realism
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India and climate change talks
If the big and largely rich emitters of today were to take mitigation in the immediate future seriously, they could achieve emission reductions without denying the poor in India the prospects of a humane existence, says Arvind Panagariya
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Africa wants $67 billion a year to fight climate change
African leaders will ask rich nations for $67 billion per year to mitigate the impact of global warming on the world's poorest continent, according to a draft resolution seen by Reuters on Monday. Ten leaders are holding talks at African Union (AU) headquarters in the Ethiopian capital to try to agree a common stance ahead of a U.N. summit on climate change in Copenhagen in December.
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G8 Agrees To Limit Global Warming; China, India Resist
The G8 agreed on Wednesday to try to limit global warming to 2 degrees Celsius and cut its greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent, but it failed to persuade China and India to join a bid to halve world emissions. With only five months until a new U.N. climate pact is due to be agreed in Copenhagen, climate change organizations said the G8 had left much work to be done and ducked key issues.
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G8 Summit To Set 2 Degrees Celsius Global Warming Goal
G8 leaders were due to agree a goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius (3.6 Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels at a summit in Italy on Wednesday. Here are some facts about the target, previously adopted by European Union nations and due to be widened to the United States, Russia, Japan and Canada. 2 DEGREES DOESN'T SOUND MUCH?
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Heat on wheat as agri hits a dry patch
The agriculture sector, which in previous Economic Surveys seemed to be pulling out of a bad patch, slipped back into a dismal 1.6% growth in 2008-09, the latest report said. The worst show was in the third quarter, which, on a year-on-year basis, showed a 0.8% decline.
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Dramatically increasing chance of extremely hot summers since the 2003 European heatwave
Socio-economic stress from the unequivocal warming of the global climate system could be mostly felt by societies through weather and climate extremes. The vulnerability of European citizens was made evident
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Adapting to climate change: public health
The potential consequences of climate change extend to the health of the public, with warming of the planet projected to have both positive and negative consequences that will vary temporally and spatially. Climate change will not act to introduce new causes of morbidity and mortality, but to change the distributions of factors that affect the occurrence of morbidity and mortality.
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Climate Health Costs: Bug-Borne Ills, Killer Heat
Tree-munching beetles, malaria-carrying mosquitoes and deer ticks that spread Lyme disease are three living signs that climate change is likely to exact a heavy toll on human health. These pests and others are expanding their ranges in a warming world, which means people who never had to worry about them will have to start. And they are hardly the only health threats from global warming.