More than a billion Indians face heat waves every year. Hundreds of millions of them work in the informal sector, toiling ...

Officials have yet to grasp the magnitude of heat-related deaths, let alone effectively deal with the problem, public health ...

India is losing billions of labour hours—and thousands of lives—to rising heat each year. The Lancet Countdown 2025 shows how climate change has turned the country’s growth story into a large-scale ...

India faces challenges in protecting vulnerable workers as rising heat waves outpace preparedness and effective heat action ...

Extreme heat impacts India's informal workers daily. Hundreds of millions toil outdoors or in stifling factories, risking ...

When Gyanchand Saw climbed out of his car on a sweltering morning in mid-May, his son, sitting in the driver’s seat, noticed beads of sweat trickling down the 55-year-old’s forehead. Saw greeted a ...

Almost one-third of the heatwave days India experienced in 2024 were driven by climate change, according to a new report by ...

When 28-year-old Sonelal Prasad left home on the morning of June 16 for his job at a construction site in Mumbai—the financial capital of India—he didn’t know he’d be digging his own grave. As he ...

According to health experts, scorching temperatures that lead to a heatwave have a direct impact on your organs – especially your stomach, causing various gastrointestinal infections. Read on to know ...