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3 More Die Due To Heatstroke In Rajasthan, Number Of Patients Rise To 3,965

May 29, 2024 admin

Three persons lost their lives in Jaipur due to heat stroke on Tuesday. (Representational) Jaipur: Three persons lost their lives in Jaipur due to heat stroke on Tuesday, the health department said, adding that the total number of heat stroke cases climbed to 3965 on Monday. Those who died were from Agra and Delhi, health…

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This century, heat waves are moving slower and lasting longer

May 27, 2024 admin

Growing up in the 1990s in India meant having seen an ad for a glucose-based drink on television in which the Sun literally sucks the life-force out of children with a giant straw as they are playing. This ad has started to hit closer to reality. India has increasingly been in the grip of more…

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Mumbai Sets Up Cold Rooms, Stocks Up On Medicines To Battle Heat Wave

April 5, 2024 admin

Representational Image Mumbai: The civic body in Mumbai has set up cold rooms and made heat stroke medicines available at its health facilities anticipating a searing summer, an official said on Friday. In a release, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation said it had equipped 103 of its Hindu Hridaysmrat Balasaheb Thackeray ‘Aapla Davakhana’ (public dispensaries) with…

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As India’s summer begins, understanding the heat and health conundrum

April 1, 2024 admin

Anthropogenic climate change is turning ambient heat, a relatively banal manifestation of the sun, into an inevitable environmental hazard. In 2023, with the atmospheric carbon dioxide level reaching new heights of 425 ppm, we witnessed the warmest decade on record spanning from 2014 to 2023. Until a few decades ago, hazards of high heat largely existed…

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