-The Indian Express Hyderabad/ Bhubaneshwar: In neighbouring Telangana, where the government has not declared any ex-gratia, 486 deaths have been reported from 10 districts where temperatures have been consistently high. Of the 1,636 “heat wave” deaths reported between May 15 and May 30 in Andhra Pradesh, only a little over one-third have so far been certified to have been caused by heat. The number of deaths being reported to mandal officers, Andhra Disaster...
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How to fight heat wave, the Odisha way -Richard Mahapatra
-Down to Earth Telangana and Andhra Pradesh could take cue from the state government on reducing number of Heat Stroke deaths In May, 1998 when I was travelling in Odisha, hospitals reported 2,042 deaths due to Heat Stroke across the state, right from the coastal cities to western regions. A doctor posted at a government hospital in the coastal town of Kendrapara said, “I have counted more deaths than births in a week....
More »Climate change will make food less nutritious: Study -Subodh Varma
-The Times of India NEW DELHI: Plants make food from carbon dioxide in the air, using energy from sunlight. So, if carbon dioxide levels in the air are going up due to climate change, plants should be making more food, right? Wrong, says a new study published last week in the science journal Nature. According to the study conducted by a team of US, Australian and Japanese scientists, carbon dioxide emissions are...
More »10 people die in Odisha due to heatwave -Priya Ranjan Sahu
-The Hindustan Times At least 10 people have died of Heat Stroke in Odisha, which is witnessing an intense heat wave for the past 20 days. "Of the 42 deaths said to have been caused by the raging heat wave, officials have confirmed 10 deaths were caused by Heat Stroke," a report from the office of special relief commissioner (SRC) said. Three heat-stroke deaths occurred in Mayurbhanj district, while Balasore, Bhadrak,...
More »Did climate change trigger heat wave in India and other nations in 2014? -Vani Manocha
-Down to Earth Britain's weather department has issued a heat wave warning and the US is presently basking in a summer with temperatures higher than normal Freak rains, hailstorms and now an early heat wave, it is all happening here in India. While Odisha and Kolkata were in the grip of heat wave in late April, which claimed 33 lives (30 in Odisha and three in Kolkata), intense heat wave conditions have...
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