by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 20, 2023 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Facts, Health
Extreme heat has caused more than 24,000 deaths since 1992 and has also driven up air pollution and accelerated glacial melt in northern India, said a team of scholars led by the University of Cambridge’s Ramit Debnath Killer heat waves are putting...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 19, 2023 | Facts, Health
“Heatstroke is a serious medical condition that can be fatal if not treated promptly with rapid cooling,” said Dr Ajay Aggarwal, Director and Head – Internal Medicine, Fortis Hospital Noida New Delhi: Even as summers have set in, India has started...
by AIP Online Bureau | May 19, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Health, Indian News
“With temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius in recent days, it is clear the current heat wave is an extreme weather event affecting communities and livelihoods,” Professor Peter Stott, Met Office Science Fellow in Climate Attribution, said in a...
by AIP Online Bureau | Apr 30, 2022 | Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Non-Life
Mrutyunjay Mohapatra, director general of India Meteorological Department (IMD), said parts of northwest and west central India–Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Haryana–will continue having normal temperatures in May as well The heatwave could affect...
by AIP Online Bureau | Feb 2, 2022 | Climate, Environment, Renewable Energy, Eco/Invest/Demography, Indian News, Technology
In the study led by climate scientist Roxy Mathew Koll and published in the journal ‘JGR Oceans’, the researchers reported a significant increase in marine heatwaves, aided by rapid warming in the Indian Ocean and strong El NiƱos (weather event associated...