How Older People Are The Hidden Victims Of Climate Change
When Rahman, 72, looks out over the azure waters of the Makassar Sea from her home in the coastal area...
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Why Small Farmers In India Remain Anxious About The Monsoon
One of the more enduring images from the iconic film from the 1950s, Do Bigha Zameen, was its poster showing...
Extreme Heat Compounds Vulnerabilities In Low Income Areas
In the past two months, Delhi and the National Capital Region has experienced extreme heat with multiple heat waves and...
Unified Action Needed To Tackle Extreme Heat And Air Pollution
The combined impact of air pollution and heatwaves can be far more severe than individual impacts, as various reactions between...
Women, Heat And Informal Housing
A steady rise in temperatures in Telangana is causing heat stress to women in urban slums, who lack access to...
How 2023’s Record Heat Worsened Droughts, Floods Around The World
2023 was a year of record-breaking heat, devastating storms and floods, deepening droughts and raging wildfires. These events showed how...
How The Hottest Year Ever Unfolded
December would have to break all sorts of cold weather records for 2023 to avoid being the hottest year ever,...
How Dangerous Is Extreme Heat To Humans
The media reporting around heatwaves that have hammered the planet recently has been unequivocal: the simultaneous record-breaking heat has “pushed...
What Next As The Planet Gets Hotter…?
The planet is baking. Southern Europe is sweltering through a record heatwave with temperatures tipped to surpass the European record...
Erratic, Unpredictable Weather: The New Normal For India Now?
This year, a large proportion of Indians living in the central, western and south western parts of the country heaved...
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...
Seven Ways To Recycle Heat & Reduce Carbon Emissions
Heating of space and water in buildings accounts for about 44% of all energy consumed globally, according to the International...
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...
Why We Can’t Rely On Air Conditioning To Keep Us Cool
In summertime in Chongqing, China, Xi Yu* (35) hates the short walk from his apartment to the subway station on...
Comment: South Asia Needs Equitable Cooling As Heatwaves Worsen
At a construction site on the outskirts of New Delhi, Ravinder Kumar, a mason, spends his days slicing giant luminescent...
Climate Change Drives Down Yields & Nutrition Of Indian Crops
Rashpinder Singh, 36, is a farmer who owns 17 acres (almost seven hectares) of land in the state of Punjab....
How Hot Is Too Hot For The Human Body?
Heat waves are becoming supercharged as the climate changes, lasting longer, becoming more frequent and getting just plain hotter. One...
