Into the fire: The alarming effects of climate change

Delhiwallas may have learnt to live with 43 degree heat, but Europe is wilting in the heat as a record heatwave continues to sweep across the northern hemisphere, causing forest fires, droughts and pe...

Aug 16, 2018, 14:15 IST11 min

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A local grocery store invited customers for a sleepover to cool off as the heatwave continues in Helsinki, Finland. Scientists have long warned that a warming planet will wreak more extreme...

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Sweden&rsquos tallest peak lost its title last week because record heat melted away its tip, a glacier that sits atop the southern peak of the Kebnekaise mountain. Located in far northern S...

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A young girl at a public fountain on a hot summer day in Tokyo. Roughly 125 have died in Japan as the result of a heatwave that pushed temperatures in Tokyo above 40&ordmC for the first tim...

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Long hours of sunlight and high water temperatures have created perfect conditions for toxic algae, seen on the beach in Gdynia, Poland. Poisonous to humans and animals, the algae interests...

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Elephants of Cirkus Arena are being hosed down by local firefighters during a hot summer day in Gilleleje, Denmark.<br />

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Bus driver Abdelkader poses in a bus wearing a bermuda, the new RATP uniform allowed during heat waves in the French capital, in Paris, France. In Nantes, a bevy of male bus and tram driver...

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The Champagne region in France, renowned for the sparkling wine that bears its name, is grappling with rising temperatures that affects the acidity and taste of the champagne. Over the last...

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Belgian winemaker Annie Hautier works among vines at the Domaine du Chapitre in Baulers, Belgium. A warming climate has contributed to a quickly expanding wine industry in a country otherwi...

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A combine, taken with a drone, harvests wheat in a field of the &quotZemlyaki&quot farm in Krasnoyarsk region, Russia. Global warming has helped Russia to expand its wheat yield, lowering g...

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A young woman sorts coffee beans at the Kaffa Forest Farmers Cooperative Union outside Bonga, Ethiopia. Poor countries, like the Sub-Saharan Africa and Brazil, are losing billions of dollar...

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Pilgrims descend a rock face after a ceremony during the annual Qoyllurit&#39i (Snow and Star) festival in Ocongate, Peru. A warmer climate is melting much of the &#39sacred&#39 Qolqepunku&...

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Timing is everything in nature. Ecologists at the University of Ottawa presented a first global look at biological timing of 88 species that rely on another life form, and showed that on av...

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Times Square was &lsquoflooded&rsquo in a multi-media art display, aiming to show how climate change could lead to sea levels rising over low-lying sections of New York City. Using smartpho...

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Thousands of miles of underground internet cables crisscrossing coastal regions like New York, Seattle and Miami will be indundated by rising seas in the next 15 years. The study presented ...

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Ghoramara, an island in the Sundarban Delta complex of the Bay of Bengal is quickly disappearing due to erosion. The high tides and the continual rise in sea level swallow portions of land ...

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The world lost tree cover of 2,94,000 sq km, the size of Italy in 2017 as forests were cleared using fire to make way for farms from the Amazon to Congo basin, according to Global Forest Wa...

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People solemnise a frog marriage in Nagpur, India, as a ritual plea to gods to bring rain. The Vidharbha region in Maharashtra is at the centre of inland regions in India that are at a far ...

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A deep rift across the Larsen C Ice Shelf at the Antarctic Peninsula. Earth is at the risk of tipping into a &lsquohothouse&rsquo state beyond which human efforts to reduce emissions will b...

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Low carbon technologies like solar panels, wind turbines and electric cars may have become cheaper and more efficient, yet enforcing global targets for decarbonisation is proving to be diff...

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