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Average temperatures and heatwave frequency will keep rising in Pakistan, say researchers as the country has struggled to come to grips with soaring temperatures in recent weeks.
A team of international researchers, who say their study is the first to show the country’s heat-wave trajectory forecasts a 75 per cent increase in he…
Climate change could cost India 2.8 per cent of GDP, and depress living standards of nearly half of its population by 2050, as average annual temperatures are expected to rise by 1-2 per cent over three decades, a World Bank report on Thursday said.
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"Rising temperatures and changing monsoon rainfall patterns from climate change co…
By Suzanne Carter
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on 1.5°C was approved on 6 October. The report shows that by current estimates, the Earth has already warmed by 1°C (by 2017) above pre-industrial levels and that we are on track to reach 1.5°C between 2030 and 2052 at the present rate of emissions. But given that 1.5…
The modular housing, which can be manufactured in a week, captures rainwater and reduces heat gain
By Rina Chandran
The creator of a low-cost house made of bamboo to tackle the chronic shortage of affordable housing in the Philippine capital has won a top international prize to design future cities in a rapidly urbanising world.
Earl Forlales, 23, wo…
By Lubaina Rangwala
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First, the ICAP fails to integrate future climate trends in its projection of heat risk under different geographic conditions. Cooling requirements in dry and arid regions as opposed to humid coastal regions will vary drastically; so will the technology and planning. Integrating climate projections in city and regional p…
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) today (May 11, 2018) conducted a meeting with 17 heat wave-prone States to review their preparedness and mitigation measures. In view of the recent incidents of thunderstorm and lightning, preparedness measures relating to these hazards were also assessed.
In the meeting conducted through video conferen…
DA NANG, 18 June 2015 – The Sendai Framework identifies partnership with the private sector as a vital element in global efforts to reduce disaster risk. This strategic and inclusive approach is already a reality in hazard-prone Da Nang, on Viet Nam’s Central Coast.
Over the past four years, the local authorities have put public-private sector cooperat…
By Low Youjin
SINGAPORE — By 2045, Singaporeans could face some days of the year when temperatures soar as high as a scorching 40°C.
At best, this sweltering scenario could be delayed to as late as 2065 onwards, based on simulations conducted by a team of scientists at the Centre for Climate Research Singapore, which is part of the Meteorological Serv…
By Friederike Otto and Luke Harrington
Recent summers have demonstrated dramatically that heatwaves are not only deadly, but they are already being influenced by human-induced climate change.
Research into heatwaves across the world has confirmed that increasing trends in frequency, duration and cumulative heat have accelerate…
Heatwaves - set to worsen as climate change strengthens - are cutting working hours and income, with the poor struggling to stay cool
By Manipadma Jena
"This extreme heat we now see is no less than a sly thief," said Murali Sahoo, a building painter in eastern India, as he washed his buckets and brushes at the end of another sweltering work day.…
A temperature reading collected in Delhi, India's capital territory, may have broken national records as the country grapples with a blistering heat wave. The reading — 52.9 degrees Celsius or 126.1 degrees Fahrenheit — was preliminary and technically an outlier compared with others taken in Delhi on the same day, officials said. But, if confirmed, it w…
[...]Election workers like Dwivedi paid a heavy price over the six weeks of voting with dozens dying from heatstroke alongside scores of other people across the country as temperatures soared, hitting a record of around 49 C (120.2 F) in the capital Delhi in late May.Another poll worker, who did not want to be named, was angry as he sat in the swelterin…