Environment

File photo: France recorded its hottest June since records began in 1947 France recorded 5,764 more deaths than expected during a record-breaking heatwave that swept the country between June 17 and July 2, health authorities said on Wednesday, highlighting the deadly impact of increasingly frequent extreme weather events linked to climate change.According to France’s public … Read more

The 196 member states of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) will vote on additions to its World Heritage and World Heritage in Danger lists from Friday next week The United Nations cultural agency is set to place several major heritage sites on its list of places under threat, with war, climate … Read more

More than 10,000 excess deaths were recorded across Europe during the record-breaking heatwave that swept through western parts of the continent in late June, according to official mortality data cited by Reuters.Figures released by EuroMOMO, a mortality monitoring network backed by the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) and the World Health Organization … Read more

India is currently going through an intense heatwave that has people hiding up in their abodes, experimenting with movies and trying online trends. Typically, netizens of other countries try experimenting with making desserts or heating up water in extreme cold and hot weather.Now, a man’s unusual experiment in the intense summer heat of Odisha has … Read more

Thursday offered a rare sight for a city that spends much of the year battling hazardous air pollution, and a rarer statistic. Delhi’s air quality slipped into the “good” category for the first time in nearly three years, giving residents a fleeting sense of what it actually feels like to breathe clean air.The continuous monsoon … Read more

Wayanad landslide death toll rises (Image/PTI) NEW DELHI: Congress MP and Leader of Opposition in the Lok Sabha Rahul Gandhi on Tuesday expressed grief over the deaths caused by the devastating landslide near the Wayanad tunnel construction site. He assured that the Congress and the United Democratic Front (UDF) would stand by every affected family … Read more

India’s major reservoirs are holding just 26 per cent of their live capacity There’s a particular kind of math millions of Indians have learned this summer: how many buckets can you fill before the tap pressure drops, or which day of the week the water actually comes. It’s no longer an emergency routine. It’s just … Read more

For decades, people in the UK tended to view air conditioning as something that belonged elsewhere. It was associated with office buildings, hotels and hotter countries rather than their own homes. But as summers become warmer and heatwaves more frequent, that picture is beginning to change.Colleagues and I analysed data from the English Housing Survey, … Read more

A plane drops a load of water on the Aspen Acres Fire near Colorado City. (Photo credit: AP) A wildfire burning southwest of Denver forced the evacuation of thousands of residents and destroyed more than 160 structures by Friday as erratic winds pushed the blaze across two Colorado counties.The Aspen Acres fire is one of … Read more

Report has exposed how despite regulations in place Meta still has an ever growing illegal wildlife animal trafficking market A report by several NGOs on Monday accused Meta of hosting the world’s “largest single known illegal wildlife trade market” on its Facebook platform, with conservationists saying the company effectively encourages the trade by allowing users … Read more