Andhra heat wave claims 70 more
The heat wave in Andhra Pradesh has claimed a total of 1,209 lives with 70 more deaths reported. The temperature kept hovering between 46 to 48 degrees Celsius in parts of the
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Indian forest fire compounds heat wave misery
Six people, including four children, died in a forest fire in northern India during a scorching heat wave that has killed more than 1,200 people across the country, an official said. The victims were
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Deaths foretold
Call it the nature's fury or a cascading effect of global warming, a fierce heat wave sweeping across the country for the last few weeks has already claimed more than 1,300 lives, with Andhra Pradesh
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With monsoon hitting Kerala, Andhra likely to get respite
As a harbinger of relief to the nation reeling under sweltering heat, the South-West monsoon today hit Kerala raising hopes that severe heat wave conditions persisting in Andhra Pradesh would finally
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Heat wave kills 1500 in India but rains start
While vast tracts of India reeled under a heat wave that has killed more than 15000 people, monsoon rains lashed the country's northeast and the authorities issued flood warnings. The monsoons
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Fighting poverty
It was a grim harvest thios week preceding the World Environment Day(JUne 5). The heat wave death toll has already touched the 2000 mark - of them, 1400 in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh alone.
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... as AP keeps fingers crossed
The joy over the onset of Monsoon that had put an end to the deadliest-ever heat wave in Andhra Pradesh, is now slowly giving way to nervousness and jitters both in the Government and among the
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5,000deaths from heat in France called 'plausible'
France's embattled health minister said Monday tht it was "plausible" that up to 5,000 people had died from the effects of the withering heat wave this month.Facing calls for his resignation over the
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Bytes
start telling stories: Being a maths wizard and a great storyteller may appear completely different, but a new study by Canada's University of Waterloo suggests that preschool children's
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What ails India's wind pattern study?
cyclone Gonu has showed up the chinks in India's wind pattern research. The cyclone lashed Oman on June 4, 2007, and delayed monsoon in India by a week. Indian scientists, including the India
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On the heat wave over Northern India in April-May 1941
The outstanding feature of Indian weather in the second half of April and the first week of May of the year was the extremely high temperatures over a large part of Northern India.
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Quasi-resonant circulation regimes and hemispheric synchronization of extreme weather in boreal summer
The recent decade has seen an exceptional number of boreal summer weather extremes, some causing massive damage to society. There is a strong scientific debate about the underlying causes of these events.
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INDIA
• The minsitry of environment and forests is all set to issue a notification banning the use of plastic bags for packing items such as meat, fish and cooked food. • Flood waters have
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How to get away with murder
What is wrong with us? Over 800 people have died in north India, another 500 in Bangladesh, only because it is colder this winter. And these are government estimates. Who knows what the real human
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Mysterious deaths
at least 1,000 tonnes of fish were recently found dead near the shores of Kuwait. Following the incident, the government has imposed a ban on fishing, though the cause of the deaths is still
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Haryana bans ACs in offices
After Punjab last week banned the use of air conditioners in government offices, the Haryana government too on Sunday imposed a similar ban across the state to tide over the power crisis the heat wave conditions have caused in the region
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C for clean
I remember many years ago receiving a call from a bbc journalist asking which villages in India should they visit to see the impacts of climate change. This was the early 1990s. I was puzzled and
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The politics of empty words
The new buzzword in the climate research circles is vulnerability and adaptation. Just like most of the climate discussion the words have become so dense, that their meaning is lost on most, except
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Heat draws power demand to all-time high
High humidity coupled with extreme temperatures has resulted power demand in the Capital rising to unprecedented figures. Monday recorded the highest ever peak power demand at 4,668 MW, surpassing the May 24 record of 4,581 MW. Till last year, the dreaded peak power demand mark for the department was a humble 4,500 MW. This summer, however, this mark has been crossed several times already.
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The change of a lifetime
Now that the jury is out on the very real threat of climate change, we must focus on what needs to be done. The recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change ipcc should make