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Climate inaction causing 'millions' of avoidable deaths: StudyAn international expert team warns that policy failures are causing millions of avoidable deaths annually due to climate change's health im...
Global analysis finds 15 million in India affected by 2024-25 wildfires, UP most impactedA recent global report highlights that wildfires affected 15 million individuals in India during the 2024-25 period, with Uttar Pradesh bea...
Indians give eateries cold shoulder amid head-spinning heatExtreme heatwave conditions across India have significantly impacted restaurants, pubs, and bars, leading to a sharp decline in sales and f...
India's plan of becoming the fastest-growing G20 nation may hinge on the weatherIndia's precarious balance between human ingenuity and environmental fragility is under threat as record-breaking temperatures and extreme ...
Innovaccer’s new funding round; ONDC’s logistics pushHappy Thursday! SaaS startup Innovaccer is in discussions to raise funding at a flat valuation of $3 billion. This and more in today’s ETte...
Climate change may make India and the Indus Valley too hot for up to 2.2 billion: StudyA new study published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences warns that climate change could expose up to 2.2 billi...
2022 fifth or sixth warmest year on record: WMOThe global mean temperature in 2022 was 1.15 degrees Celsius above the pre-industrial (1850-1900) average, making it the "fifth or sixth" w...
France records hottest year in 2022; crops production crippled amid deficient rainfallFrance has been devastated in the agricultural sector by drought and recorded some of the hottest days since 1919; deficient rainfall and p...
India says will need coal until 2040 and beyondAddressing a parliamentary committee, minister in charge of coal Pralhad Joshi said the fuel was an affordable source of energy and demand ...
China to witness drought-like situations in coming years: StudyThe main reason behind China's heat wave is its carbon emission. China, in the two decades of its breakneck growth, became the largest poll...
World in 'wrong direction' as climate impacts worsen: UNThe UN's World Meteorological Organization and its Environment Programme warned catastrophes will become commonplace should the world econo...
China's trade falters as demand wanes at home and abroadThe disappointing August trade figures rattled global financial markets, which have already been buckling under a surging dollar and the pr...
Drought in China: Climate change may cause more intense heat waves, warn scientistsAccording to the Agriculture ministry of China, the current heat wave is the worst that China has been experiencing in more than 60 years. ...
Watch: China's worst heat wave forces people to rush to supermarketsMany elderly people in China have set up a new daily routine, as they head to supermarkets as the day temperature begins to soar.
Half of China hit by drought in worst heatwave on recordExperts have said the intensity, scope and duration of the heatwave could make it one of the worst recorded in global history. A chart from...
China lithium hub Sichuan cuts power supply to industry amid heatwaveIndustrial users across 19 out of 21 cities in the province were ordered to suspend production from Aug. 15 until Aug. 20 to prioritise res...
What is causing record floods and heatwaves in China?Authorities have issued extreme weather warnings in multiple regions, while experts warned that these phenomena were more evidence of the i...
Next big killer here already? Cooling pandemic offers little relief as unforgiving heatwave singes IndiaUpdated projections warn of unprecedented killer heatwaves on the near horizon, according to a 4,000-page Intergovernmental Panel on Climat...
After Covid, could the next big killer be heatwaves?The chilling report by the UN's climate science advisory panel paints a grim -- and deadly -- picture for a warming planet. If the world wa...
Swiss Re puts India at No. 2 in worst catastrophe listWorldwide, the year 2016 saw 327 disaster events, of which 191 were natural catastrophes and 136 were man-made.