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Why Europe doesn't use air conditioning despite record heatwaves

June 25, 2026 11:40 pm

Western Europe heatwave intensifies across France, Britain, Italy and Spain, causing deaths, transport disruption, power strain and emergency heat alerts across region.

UN's El Nino warning amid heatwave: How the climate pattern affected India before

June 04, 2026 10:53 pm

The year “2027 is very likely at this point to be the [world’s] warmest year on record,” Zeke Hausfather, a climate scientist with the Berkeley Earth group in the US told the BBC.

Mercury rises across state, Ahmedabad hottest at 35.2°C

August 11, 2025 4:59 am

In the state, 39 talukas out of total 251 received rainfall till 6 pm, the State Emergency Operation Centre (SEOC) said

Earth's average temperature for 2025-29 likely to exceed 1.5 deg C limit

May 28, 2025 11:40 am

According to the India Meteorological Department (IMD), India received above-normal rainfall during the monsoon season in four of the past five years.

Top 10 countries that shattered national heat records: 2024 was the hottest year ever

May 21, 2025 3:10 pm

The World’s Record Heat Waves: In a notable mention, the coldest continent on Earth, Antarctica, set a record in 2020, with summer temperatures at the Esperanza base surpassing 18°C.

What breaching 1.5°C warming threshold means for the Earth, in 2025 and beyond

January 12, 2025 1:14 pm

It’s official: 2024 was the first year to breach the 1.5 degree Celsius threshold. With global emissions continuing to grow, this was very much expected. The planet will only get warmer in the coming years

Hottest January day since 2016: Mumbai sizzles at 36 degrees Celsius

January 03, 2025 11:31 pm

For the record, Mumbai’s warmest January day ever was recorded in 2006 at 37.4 degrees Celsius

AC sales may touch new record of 14 million units annual sales in 2024: CEAMA

June 06, 2024 6:02 pm

The Indian residential AC market is expected to be around 10-11 million units, in which brands like Voltas, LG, Hitachi Johnson, Lloyd, Panasonic, Daikin, and Godrej compete.

UN warns rising temperatures threaten to worsen Humanitarian crisis in Gaza

June 03, 2024 7:31 pm

The lack of clean drinking water has become a top concern as it gets hotter and Palestinians face dehydration as well as the spread of infectious disease

UN agency confirms 48.8 degrees Celsius reading in Sicily two years ago as Europe's record high temperature

January 30, 2024 3:35 pm

The World Meteorological Organization says the Sicilian scorcher was picked up on Aug 11, 2021, at a time when temperatures were soaring across much of Europe — renewing concerns about climate change caused by human activity.

Minimum Temperature Rises Several Notches Above Normal In Punjab and Haryana

June 22, 2020 7:10 pm