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UN agency says extreme heat, hurricanes, droughts ravage Latin America and Caribbean

May 10, 2024, at 02:13 pm

2023 saw another climate record tumble, with Latin America and the Caribbean registering their hottest ever recorded temperatures, according to the UN’s weather monitoring agency.

UN expert alerts global heating may disrupt food supply even before 1.5C temperature rise

Aug 12, 2023, at 08:42 pm

A top UN official has warned that the world might face a major disruption to food supplies well before temperatures rise by the 1.5C target.

China renews orange alert for drought

Aug 25, 2022, at 01:35 am

Beijing/UNI: China's national observatory on Wednesday renewed an orange alert for drought as heatwaves continued in many regions.

Madagascar: Severe drought could spur world’s first climate change famine

Oct 22, 2021, at 09:46 pm

New York: More than one million people in southern Madagascar are struggling to get enough to eat, due to what could become the first famine caused by climate change, according to the World Food Programme (WFP).

Several recent weather extremes linked to climate change: Study

Dec 11, 2018, at 04:55 pm

Washington, Dec 11 (IBNS): The U.S. Northern Plains and East Africa droughts of 2017, floods in South America, China and Bangladesh, and heatwaves in China and the Mediterranean were all made more likely by human-caused climate change, according to new research published today in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society (BAMS). 

NASA study finds drought recoveries taking longer

Aug 17, 2017, at 12:18 am

Washington, Aug 16 (IBNS): As global temperatures continue to rise, droughts are expected to become more frequent and severe in many regions during this century.

Coal revenues suffer Rs 2,400 cr loss in 2016 due to drought:Greenpeace analysis

Jun 10, 2016, at 05:13 am

Mumbai, Jun 9 (IBNS): The water scarcity crippling large parts of India has already cost coal power companies nearly 7 billion units in lost electricity generation, with an estimated revenue loss of Rs. 2,400 crore in the first five months of 2016 alone, according to an analysis by Greenpeace India presented at a press conference in Mumbai on Thursday.