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Water woes to hit denizens hard
State reservoirs may be brimming, but it looks like the city would face a shortage of drinking water. While water tanks are built in certain areas,...
Chennai feels the heat as climate change makes presence felt
Dr S Balachandran, Deputy Director-General of Meteorology, Regional Meteorological Centre (RMC), Chennai said the impact of climate change on rainfall...
Chennai to combat extreme heat with UN’s urban cooling programme
The Greater Chennai Corporation is all set to launch the urban cooling programme to implement initiatives that’d reduce the overall temperature of the...
Blistering heat sweeps Haryana, parts of Punjab
Blistering heat swept Haryana and parts of Punjab on Thursday, with Gurugram sizzling at 44.6 degrees Celsius.
Global warming responsible for one in three heat-related deaths, study...
Between 1991 and 2018, more than a third of all deaths in which heat played a role were attributable to human-induced global warming, according to a...
Heat, soap, alcohol treatment effective against Covid variants
Covid-19 variants have a similar surface stability as the wild type virus under laboratory conditions, but can be effectively eliminated by...
Plant extract, heat can kill cancer cells, reveals study
"The synergistic activation of Reactive Oxygen Species (ROS) mediated autophagy (natural process of removing damaged cells) by light triggered...