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What is a heat wave? How to stay safe? As north India reels under intense sun, here's how to beat the heat

Parts of northern India are now reeling under a heat wave, particularly Rajasthan, Jammu and Kashmir, Punjab, West Rajasthan, West Madhya Pradesh. The Indian weather agency IMD on Wednesday (June 11) ...
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Scientists link hundreds of severe heat waves to fossil fuel producers’ pollution

The 2021 heat dome in the Pacific Northwest that overwhelmed emergency rooms and left hundreds dead. The 2022 heat wave in India devastated the wheat harvest. The deadly heat waves in France in 2003 ...
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What's more dangerous than India's frequent heat waves? Heat stress

Every summer morning, Kantaben Kishen Parmar, a 45-year-old vegetable seller in Ahmedabad, settles onto a patch of ground the size of a large rug, sandwiched between the warming asphalt and a ...
Time

Urbanization Is Intensifying India’s Summer Heat and Rain

When 28-year-old Sonelal Prasad left home on the morning of June 16 for his job at a construction site in Mumbai—the financial capital of India—he didn’t know he’d be digging his own grave. As he ...
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Scientists link hundreds of severe heat waves to fossil fuel producers' pollution

The 2021 heat dome in the Pacific Northwest that overwhelmed emergency rooms and left hundreds dead. The 2022 heat wave in India that devastated the wheat harvest. The deadly heat waves in France in ...