As the temperatures rose in southern Pakistan, so did the body count. The Edhi ambulance service says it usually takes around 30 to 40 people to the Karachi city morgue daily. But over the last six days, it has collected some 568 bodies – 141 of them on Tuesday alone. It is too early to […]
At least five people have died in heavy rains, flooding and resulting landslides around the city of Meizhou in China’s Guangdong province, and a further four people in Wuping in south-eastern Fujian province, state television reported on Tuesday. In Meizhou, contact was lost to a 15 people and another 13 were cut off by water […]
By Sakshi Dayal and Priyanshu Singh NEW DELHI (Reuters) -Delhi recorded an all-time high temperature of 52.9 degrees Celsius (127.22 Fahrenheit) on Wednesday as extreme heat conditions gripped the north and western parts of India, causing students to faint in schools and drinking water taps to dry up. A heat wave alert has been in […]
Multiple experts have rebuffed a misleading online claim shared during extreme heat in the Philippines that the heat index — a measurement of the “real feel” temperature after humidity is taken into account — was being used to “advance climate change propaganda”. They told AFP the index was an important tool to signal the dangers […]