‘Even The Idea That Heat Can Kill Is Still Quite Contentious’
The temperature was 48C and the sun bore down on Apekshita Varshney. Reporting from the city of Akola in western...
Heat Action Plans
Adopting A Whole-System Approach To Cooling In A Warming World
Extreme heat in India is increasingly frequent and severe, disproportionately affecting vulnerable populations like informal workers, women, and elderly individuals....
What Rising Temps Are Doing To The Health Of Women In India
Heat waves in India are getting worse year on year, and are reshaping women’s health over time, from menstruation through...
Surviving A Heat Stroke, One Year Later
Last year, Devi Prasad Ahirwar, a former security guard, collapsed from a heat stroke in Delhi, during one of the...
Too Hot To Handle As Rural Houses Turn Into Heat Traps
Studies find that tin and cement roofs significantly increase indoor heat stress in rural households, posing serious health risks. Structural...
Local Strategies A Must For Indian Cities Facing Heat Waves
Cities across India are experiencing record-breaking temperatures, intensified both by climate change and the urban heat island effect. By 2047,...
How India Can Keep Cool As Heatwaves Grow
As heatwaves grow more intense with rising temperatures and dense urban population, millions—especially in poorly ventilated informal settlements—face increasing thermal...
Safeguarding Indian Cities From Heat
Indian cities face rising heat risks due to rapid urbanisation, loss of green cover, and unplanned development. Urban heat disproportionately...
New Report Says Heat Action Crumbles When It Needs Cross-Deptt Coordination
Heat mitigation actions aren’t keeping pace with the long-term consequences of frequent and extreme heat, a new report finds. The...
No Respite From Heat For Workers In India
In June, as the India Meteorological Department (IMD) warned of ‘severe heatwave conditions’, sixty-year-old Mohd Zaffer fed fuel to the...
Surviving A Heat Stroke, Against All Odds
Dev Prasad Ahirwar, a 54-year-old migrant worker posted as a security guard, is one among hundreds exposed to the extreme...
India’s Heat Action Plans Ignore The Vulnerable
Researchers have stated that climate change made the heatwave that hit Bangladesh, India, Thailand and Laos in April 2023 at...
Bihar Heatwave Response Reveals Flaws In Our Heat Strategy
Irshad Ahmad, a shopkeeper in the city of Patna, was forced to close his store for several days in mid-April...
India’s Heat Action Plans Fail To Identify, Target Vulnerable Groups: Report
Source: PTI A review of 37 heat action plans in India shows most of them do not explicitly carry out...
