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Displaying 105 of about 612 resultsThis article presents findings from a National Geographic Society funded project, which employed a people-centered, narratives-based approach to study climate impacts and adaptation strategies of people in 19 rural study sites in four provinces of Pakistan (N = 108). Pakistan is home to a wide range of geographical landscapes, each of which faces differ…
Nairobi – A major new project developed by the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) will address the urgent need for robust climate data, information and multi-hazard early warnings in Timor-Leste, one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world; the country is also increasingly vulnerable to climate change.
The USD 21.7 million project, “En…
This year, India and Pakistan have recorded their warmest ever March and April. The pre-monsoon period in South Asia is usually marked with excessively high temperatures, especially in May but early heatwaves like this signal complex, compounding and cascading risks. Scientists believe that early heatwaves are consequent of persisting north-south low-pr…
This year, an early and hotter start to the summer has forced a change in the crop cycle in Gilgit-Baltistan, high up in the Hindu Kush Himalayas
Since March, major cities in Pakistan have experienced unseasonable and extremely high temperatures. However, farmers in the mountainous areas of the Upper Indus Basin in the Hindu Kush Himalayas ha…
India faces a growing risk of compound extremes with some central and northern Indian states likely to be most exposed to these correlated extreme events, such as simultaneous heatwave and heavy rains or droughts swiftly followed by extreme rain, a study predicts.
A rethink is needed on traditional ways of categorising extremes and assessing their ri…
Air pollution increases in South East Asia, combined with pollution cuts in Europe, may have had an important influence on European and Asian weather patterns in recent decades, new research has found.
Analysis of weather records and climate models by scientists at the University of Reading revealed that changes in air pollution levels in the two regio…
Most parts of India, including those in peninsular India and the coasts will see an increase in duration of heatwave by 12-18 days by 2060, a new report from the India Meteorological Department (IMD) released Tuesday said, recommending a comprehensive response plan for heatwaves which includes cultural, institutional, technological and ecosystem-based a…
[...]As Bangladesh's crowded capital faces another hot summer, with temperatures already topping 40 degrees Celsius (104°F) this week, its parks play an increasingly important role in providing cooling and comfort for residents.Yet rapid urbanisation is shrinking green space in the city, even as global warming accelerates, bringing more extreme heat.The…
‘Our crops are under immense stress, and workers on the fields have been coming down with heatstroke.’
In Pakistan’s north, rising levels of heat have accelerated glacial melting, triggering the collapse of a historic bridge in the Hunza Valley, bordering China. In the south, weakened flows to the Indus river have resulted in a nearly 38…
An extreme heatwave in India and Pakistan has left more than a billion people in one of the most densely populated parts of the world facing temperatures well above 40℃. Although this has not broken all-time records for the regions, the hottest part of the year is yet to come.
Though the heatwave is already testing people’s ability to survive, and…
On colour-coded temperature charts, the Indian subcontinent is currently a sickly mauve. With summer still months away, an unusually intense heatwave is threatening millions of people there. Temperatures are expected to exceed 48°C on the border between Pakistan and India this week. A month ago, the heat broke a 122-year-old record. What can people do t…
Millions sweltered in a dangerous early summer heatwave Thursday across India and Pakistan that has led to power and water shortages as annual furnace-like temperatures hit South Asia.
In New Delhi, a burning rubbish dump choked residents for a third day with temperatures crossing 45 Celsius (113 Fahrenheit) in parts of the region—several degrees highe…
Extreme weather can reduce productivity and GDP. Ensuring waste management, robust public transport and more open, green spaces could bring some respite.
Over the past month, Rani has been exhausted all the time. As the mercury has soared beyond 42 degrees Celsius in Delhi, life in her tin-roofed, poorly ventilated home made from mud and corrugated iro…
In India and Pakistan, maximum temperatures were consistently above 40 degrees Celsius for over a fortnight, exceeding the average for early April by up to 10C in some areas.
For days at a time in early April, people and animals across large swathes of India and Pakistan lay gasping in whatever shade they could find as the temperature exceeded 43 degre…
Workers at India's manufacturing hubs are calling for cooling equipment and wider change as rising summer temperatures impact their health and power cuts disrupt their livelihoods
Factory workers suffer amid soaring summer temperatures
Unions demand cooling amenities and wider workplace reform
Power cuts due to rising heat also disrupt manufacturin…