カテゴリー: Extreme weather
At least 86 Chinese cities issue alerts, while temperatures soar in south-west and central US and Iberian peninsulaDangerous heatwaves are engulfing parts of China, Europe, south-west and central US this week, as dozens of cities have found themselves …
Staff use makeshift rafts and boats to transport patients and bring painkillers and medicines to those trapped at homeWhen the flood water roared into her home in Assam, Jyoti Bora* saw the morphine pills she takes for head and neck cancer swept away a…
In the 1980s, farmers in Bangladesh went from paddies to ponds, letting salt water flood their land. Now millions are left counting the costAsadul Islam peers into his pond in south-west Bangladesh and watches as hundreds of caged crabs float past bene…
Milk and cheese output from world’s largest producer faces catastrophic decline unless more heat stress resistant cattle are bredKailas Ramasamy gently guides his cows into a hangar-sized shed, tethers them to their posts, lays out their fodder and cl…
India’s monsoon season has been worse than usual, sweeping away possessions and leaving people huddling on raised groundPeople living in Assam, in north-east India, are usually stoical about the flooding that occurs to a greater or lesser extent every …
In March, the north and south poles had record temperatures. In May in Delhi, it hit 49C. Last week in Madrid, 40C. Experts say the worst effects of the climate emergency cannot be avoided if emissions continue to riseWhen the temperature readings star…
Lightning kills 21 and millions of homes submerged while armed forces asked to help amid continuing stormsAt least 59 people died as floods cut a swatch across north-eastern India and Bangladesh, leaving millions of homes underwater, authorities said o…
More than 770 crossings will have countdowns shorted by up to a minute and a halfAuthorities in Taipei have shortened waiting times at traffic lights for the summer, fearing that pedestrians could become ill if they are forced to stand in the tropical …
As capital swelters, India urges rich countries to provide funds to help deal with effects of climate crisisThroughout the day Virender Sharma splashes water from a bucket on to the sheet he has pulled over his lilies, tuberoses, carnations and gerbera…
The world’s poorest people ought to be helped to cope with a climate emergency they did little to causeWhat is troubling about the heatwave affecting the 1.8 billion people on the Indian subcontinent is not just that it is so hot, but that the record-b…
Soaring temperatures in subcontinent, which have caused widespread suffering, would be extraordinarily rare without global heatingThe heatwave scorching India and Pakistan has been made 30 times more likely by the climate crisis, according to scientist…
Rains inundate thousands of villages and trigger landslides in north-east Bangladesh’s worst flooding in nearly two decadesHeavy rains have caused widespread flooding in parts of Bangladesh and India, leaving millions stranded and at least 57 dead, off…
The ban on wheat exports highlights the effect a rapidly warming planet has on food security – and livelihoodsIt was his buffaloes that he was first worried about. As temperatures in the small village of Baras, deep in the Indian state of Punjab, began…
Swathes of Pakistan and India have been experiencing high temperatures since April, extreme weather that the World Meteorological Organization has said is consistent with climate change. Parts of Pakistan have reached 50C, while India registered its ho…
India and Pakistan have experienced their hottest April in 122 years. Temperatures are nearing 50C. Such extreme heat dries up water reservoirs, melts glaciers and damages crops. It’s also deadly. Ian Sample hears from Pakistan reporter Shah Meer Baloc…