2024 Disasters in Numbers
<p>In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95
Heat Waves
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Climate change threatens survival of dolphins: Study
GENEVA: Climate change may threaten the survival of of marine mammals such as dolphins, and have more far-reaching consequences for their conservation than previously thought, according to a study.
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IMD extends sunstroke, sunburn alert in Kerala
KOCHI: IMD has extended the sunstroke and sunburn alert in the state from April 2 to April 6. With this, the Kerala State Disaster Management Authority (KSDMA) has re-issued the set of precautionary guidelines
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WMO statement on the state of the global climate in 2018
This publication marks the twenty-fifth anniversary of the WMO Statement on the State of the Global Climate, which was first issued in 1994. The 2019 edition treating data for 2018 marks sustained international
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Study suggests trees are crucial to the future of our cities
The shade of a single tree can provide welcome relief from the hot summer sun. But when that single tree is part of a small forest, it creates a profound cooling effect. According to a study published
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Study reviews the potential impacts of future heat waves on humans and wildlife
Climate change is often talked about in terms of averages—like the goal set by the Paris Agreement to limit the Earth's temperature increase to 2 degrees Celsius. What such numbers fail to convey is that
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Rural residents more vulnerable to extreme temperatures
Extreme temperature leads to greater mortality risk to people living in rural communities than in urban areas, recent findings suggest. According to the study, the disparity between urban and rural
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Heatwave threatens to slash harvests in drought-hit Zimbabwe
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, March 12 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Despite a dry year, Sazini Moyo's maize crop had been pushing up tassels and she anticipated a decent harvest - until her farm outside Bulawayo
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Heatwave, sunburn, sunstroke are state-specific disasters now
Kochi: The state government has declared heatwave, sunburn and sunstroke as state-specific disasters and set aside 10% of its disaster response fund to offer compensation to the people affected by these
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Many districts in the grip of a heat wave
Madurai sizzles at 41 degree Celsius; Chennai records 36.9 It is not even April and many districts in the State are in the grip of oppressive heat. On Thursday, temperatures in Madurai and Karur districts
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The angriest summer
The Australian summer of 2018/19 marked the return of the Angry Summer with record-breaking heat and other destructive extreme weather events. The summer was characterised by prolonged, continental-scale