# EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS
2024: The warmest year in the history, first to breach 1.5 degrees threshold
2024 is declared as the warmest year on record globally, and the first calendar year that the average global temperature exceeded 1.5°C above its pre-industrial level.
Editorial Team
Climate change puts one of every 10 Indian hospitals at risk of fully or partially shut down: Study
According to a report, 2700 of the country’s 53,473 hospitals are already at high risk of partial or complete shutdown from extreme weather events.
Editorital Team
What Bengaluru floods 2022 taught us about increasing threat of urban flooding in India
Bengaluru rains were a result of change in Monsoon trends that have of late become unpredictable and complex. However, meteorologists claim that extremely heavy rainfall cannot be blamed alone and that it was the city's bad urban planning that led to such a grave situation.
Kartiki Negi