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    Doctors treat hundreds of victims of heatstroke in Pakistan

    23 May 2024

    "The situation has been getting worse since yesterday, when people affected by heat started coming to hospitals in the Punjab,” said Ghulam Farid, a senior health official. Pakistan has set up emergency response centres at hospitals to treat patients affected by the heat.

    Tourists still flock to Death Valley amid searing US heat wave blamed for several deaths

    09 Jul 2024

    French, Spanish, English and Swiss Tourists left their air-conditioned rental cars and motorhomes Monday to take photographs of the barren landscape.

    2022 was fifth or sixth warmest on record as Earth heats up

    13 Jan 2023

    Earth’s fever persisted last year, not quite spiking to a record high but still in the top five or six warmest on record, government agencies reported on Thursday.

    South Asia pummelled by heatwave that hits 50˚C in Pakistan

    13 May 2022

    On Friday, the city of Jacobabad in Sindh province hit 50˚C, the Pakistan Meteorological Department (PMD) said, with temperatures forecast to remain high until Sunday.

    76% of children in South Asia face dangerously high temperatures, warns UN

    07 Aug 2023

    "With the world at global boiling, the data clearly show that the lives and well-being of millions of children across South Asia are increasingly threatened by heat waves and high temperatures," said Sanjay Wijesekera, UNICEF Regional Director for South Asia.

    2021 was sixth hottest year on record globally: Scientists

    13 Jan 2022

    Two US science agencies - Nasa and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - and a private measuring group released their calculations for last year's global temperature on Thursday, and all said it wasn’t far behind ultra-hot 2016 and 2020.

    Sweltering streets: Hundreds of homeless die in extreme heat in US

    20 Jun 2022

    Excessive heat causes more weather-related deaths in the United States than hurricanes, flooding and tornadoes combined. Around the country, heat contributes to some 1,500 deaths annually...

    Heat, a silent killer that threatens health, lives of workers worldwide, ILO report finds

    26 Jul 2024

    Heat stress is an invisible and silent killer that can quickly cause illness, heatstroke or even death.

    UAE campaign safeguards outdoor workers against heat exhaustion

    23 Jul 2024

    The campaign, which covered Al Hamriyah city, Al Dhaid, and Kalba University in addition to Al Hamriyah Cultural and Sports Club, and Al Dhaid Cultural and Sports Club, benefited more than 3,300 workers in construction sites.

    Highly adapted microbes found in microwave ovens: Study

    08 Aug 2024

    Using next-generation sequencing and cultivation of 101 strains on five different media, the researchers found 747 different genera within 25 bacterial phyla.

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