Author: Dr Sumit Kumar Mishra
Deadly heat extremes kill 4,89,000 people annually, 45% of whom are from Asia (WHO). World Meteorological Organization (WMO) confirmed that the period from 2015 to 2025 witnessed the eleven (11) hottest years from the climatological records. Prolonged heatwave conditions in the year 2025 were observed across the world such as in Italy, Switzerland, Serbia, the Nordic regions and China. WMO statistics reveal that the heatwave duration was around 70 days in the year 2022 over China, and India’s heatwaves occurrence due to climate change increased to 30 times in 2022, and in the year 2018, more than 228 million people…