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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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A man covers his head with cloth to protect himself during a heat wave in Bhubaneswar, April 24, 2024. | Photo Credit: Biswaranjan Rout/The Hindu The complexities of the ways in which global warming manifests in local weather continue to underscore the need to model globally but predict locally. The waning phase of the strong…
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The story so far: Asia has warmed faster than the global average since 1960, the World Meteorological Organisation’s 2023 ‘State of the Climate in Asia’ report has said. According to the report, released on April 23, the Asian continent is struggling with extreme climate events like floods and heatwaves, with record-breaking temperatures and precipitation reported…
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