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4 days ago · At one point in June, nearly 100 people died within 72 hours in Odisha in cases suspected to be linked to heat conditions. Health officials in India have had to prepare. Inside heatstroke units in ...
1 day ago · Temperatures along the route from June 16 to 18 reached 47 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit) at times and exceeded 51.8 C at Mecca's Great Mosque. The heat would have been approximately 2.5 ...
1 day ago · Temperatures along the route from June 16 to 18 reached 47 degrees Celsius (117 degrees Fahrenheit) at times and exceeded 51.8 C at Mecca's Great Mosque. The heat would have been approximately 2.5 C (4.5 F) cooler without the influence of human-caused climate change, according to a weather attribution analysis by ClimaMeter.
1 day ago · June 28, 2024. Resize. LONDON — Nearly five billion people suffered from extreme heat due to climate change from June 16 to June 24, 2024, according to Climate Central. Due to climate change caused by emissions from burning petrol, gas, and coal, 619 million people in India and 579 million people in China were exposed to extreme heat ...
4 days ago · Hajj heat wave More than 1,300 people died on this year’s Hajj pilgrimage with numerous cases due to heat stress as temperatures exceeded 125 degrees Fahrenheit in Saudi Arabia.
2 days ago · The global average temperature for May 2024 was 1.52°C above the 1850–1900 pre-industrial average, marking the eleventh consecutive month (since July 2023) for which the global average temperature reached or exceeded 1.5°C. June 2024 is very likely to be the warmest June on record. And scientists say that there is now a greater than 50% ...
4 days ago · Outdoor and even indoor workers in the states being hardest hit by a dangerous heat wave have few if any protections to keep them safe. Why it matters: About 64.3 million people in the U.S. — including millions of Latino laborers — are under heat alerts, with a brutal wave hitting large swaths of the country. There were 33,890 work-related ...
