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 indicators in the United States
This report presents 24 indicators, each describing trends related to the causes and effects of climate change. The report focuses primarily on the United States, but in some cases global trends are presented to provide context or a basis for comparison.
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Advanced summers may pose threat to crop
With the onset of summers, the wait for mango starts. Speculations become rife about the mango crop. This year, the heat wave-like conditions prevailing in the state even in March, are posing a threat to mango production even after bumper flowering.
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Parched summer ahead
BRAJRAJNAGAR: Summer has just begun but water- stressed Brajrajnagar is already feeling the heat. Though political parties promise to mitigate the drinking water crisis during elections the assurances are gone with the end of polls and the denizens are left with parched throats.
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Mercury rising in MP
Mercury is on the rise in most Madhya Pradesh districts with the day temperature reaching 40 degrees celsius. The districts of Satna, Rewa and Gwalior recorded temperature of 40 degrees which was seven to eight degrees above normal during the past 24 hours. Similar rise in temperature was recorded in Jabalpur, Sagar Unjjain and Chambal divisions.
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City records hottest day of month in last 6 years
The city recorded an all-time high of 40.6 degrees Celsius on March 31, 1945 The city on Sunday recorded the hottest day of March in the past six years with the temperature shooting up to 39.2 degrees Celsius, as per the meteorological department.
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Climate change hits Kerala
Viju B | TNN Mumbai: Is God
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Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India
This document contains the presentation by Rais Akhtar on Climate change and extreme weather events mortality in India, presented at National climate research conference, IIT Delhi, March 5-6, 2010.
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No doubt, Himalayan glaciers are melting fast: Pachauri
Rahi Gaikwad Mumbai: Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which came under fire for an error in predicting that the Himalayan glaciers would melt by 2035, said on Tuesday that the contentions of snowfall discrediting the meltdown were incorrect and there was no ambiguity that the glaciers were melting.
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El Nio related health hazards in India
A severe El Nino in 1998 killed more than 2000 people and caused billions of dollars damage to crops and infrastructure in Australia and India. The 1998 El Nino severely affected the climatic conditions in India: causing heat waves which resulted in great loss of life.
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Summer heat and mortality in New York City: How hot is too hot?
Heat advisories provide advanced warning of dangerously hot weather, but criteria used to trigger alerts have not been systematically evaluated. Metzger et al.