Human health “highly susceptible” to severe heatwave disasters, finds study; 3 new heatwave hotspots in India pose immediate health risk – See states under impact
Heatwave/Severe heatwave events were found to be positively correlated with mortality in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh, highlighting that human health is highly susceptible to severe heatwave disasters
Study showed a shift in the Spatio-temporal trend of HW events from the eastern region of Gangetic West Bengal and Bihar to North-Western, Central and further to south-central region of India