While Bhubaneswar recorded 42.2 degree Celsius, the highest of the season, it was also about five degree above the normal.| Illustration: Tapas Ranjan

Country faces more frequent and more severe weather events if it fails to make deep and swift cuts to carbon emissions

Victorians will face greater danger from heatwaves because of climate change and inadequate planning, a new report says.

Climate-driven disasters such as bushfires and floods have cost Victorian taxpayers more than $4 billion over the last decade, it has emerged, as the Napthine Government released its plan for Victo

The signs of rising water are everywhere in this seaport city: yellow "Streets May Flood" notices are common at highway underpasses, in low-lying neighborhoods and along the sprawling waterfront.

A marine heatwave off Western Australia that killed fish and bleached coral was driven by unusual features in a warm ocean current, new research shows.

The Bureau of Meteorology says January was the hottest ever month in just over a century of records.

If extreme climatic events occurred, the worst afflicted would be some of the poorest societies on earth.

This was the crux of a lecture delivered by Rajendra K. Pachauri, chairman, Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and head of The Energy and Resources Institute. Mr. Pachauri who was in the city on Wednesday, was given the ‘For the Sake of Honour’ award by the Rotary Club of Madras East

The world must spend an extra $700 billion a year to curb its addiction to fossil fuels blamed for worsening floods and heat waves and rising sea levels, a study issued by the World Economic Forum