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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WMO statement on the status of the global climate in 2009
This WMO annual survey on weather and climate change provides evidence that the period, 2000
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Warm wave in city
Calcutta, Dec. 17: As Copenhagen sweats over an elusive climate deal, Calcutta is wiping beads of perspiration too, courtesy the shooting mercury and food prices. The heat and humidity have been unusually high in the city for six straight days, with today
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20002009, the warmest decade
The year 2009 is likely to rank in the top 10 warmest on record since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to WMO. Finds that the decade of the 2000s (2000
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Mapping community determinants of heat vulnerability
The evidence that heat waves can result in both increased deaths and illness is substantial, and concern over this issue is rising because of climate change. Adverse health impacts from heat waves can be avoided, and epidemiologic studies have identified specific population and community characteristics that mark vulnerability to heat waves.
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Environmental health indicators of climate change for the United States: Findings from the State Environmental Health Indicator
To develop public health adaptation strategies and to project the impacts of climate change on human health, indicators of vulnerability and preparedness along with accurate surveillance data on climate-sensitive health outcomes are needed.
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Rising U.S. Population makes 2050 Climate Cut Harder
A rising population will make it harder for the United States to make 2050 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions than for Russia and some other rich nations with shrinking populations, a Reuters survey showed.
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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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The Science Spurring Talks On A U.N. Climate Pact
Environment Ministers from about 190 nations gather in Copenhagen at the end of the year to try and agree to a broader global pact to fight climate change partly spurred by scientists' bleak findings in 2007 about likely heatwaves, floods, desertification and rising sea levels.
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Businesses Push For Global Climate Agreement At U.N.
A group of 500 businesses and nonprofit executives on Tuesday urged global governments to take action on climate change, saying failure to do so would result in catastrophe for the planet and global markets.
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Heat waves could hit northern India
N. GOPAL RAJ As a result of climate change, much of the Indo-Gangetic plain and parts of northwest India could see increasing temperatures and worsening heat-waves from the middle to the end of this century, say researchers in the U.S.