Tag: Heat Waves

Heatwaves have claimed more than 17,000 lives in 50 years in India, according to a paper recently published by the country's top meteorologists.

Bhubaneswar: With nearly four heat waves sweeping Odisha till date in 2019, when nearly a month of the summer season is still left, the shocker is in the last decade number of heat waves engulfed the State had risen by a whopping 450 per cent! Sample this: The number of heat waves swept across the […]

New York: Limiting warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will likely reduce the impact of deadly heat waves by half, but the heat waves will become commonplace across South Asia, including major crop-producing regions in India — such as West Bengal and Uttar Pradesh, says a new study. The findings, published in the journal Geophysical Research […]