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Climate Change: Heat Waves as a Growing Threat to Human Health

3 September 2017

When considering the effects of climate change there are frequent references to increased temperatures, heat waves and the impact on human health. In the last few years a considerable amount of research has been undertaken, and show would uncover have suggested a human survivability threshold based [read more]

What’s causing so many changes to India’s monsoons?

1 September 2017

Raghu Murtugudde, September 1, 2017 Fewer monsoon depressions in the Bay of Bengal are causing shifts in the duration and intensity of the rainy seasons. What does this mean for South Asia? For the third year in a row, India’s monsoon season has produced floods in the northwest and the northeast, [read more]