India’s record heatwave vows to return: Can we survive the next?
A patient being treated for heatstroke and exhaustion at New Delhi’s LNJP Hospital on June 19. The heatwave led to a huge influx of such patients in hospitals in the Delhi-NCR region. | Photo Credit: PTI
Highlights Heatwaves impact every human organ, from the brain to the heart, kidneys, liver, and lungs. The warming of the Indian Ocean and more frequent El Niño events may lead to more frequent and longer heatwave episodes over India in the future. Experts warn that between 2020 and 2100, the Indian Ocean will very likely experience surface warming of 1.4°C to 3°C.
A group of Muslim worshippers take shelter from the heat before the start of prayers, at a mosque in Ahmedabad on June 17. | Photo Credit: AMIT DAVE/REUTERS
On a hot summer day along the banks of the Sangam, the confluence of the Ganga and the Yamuna, in Uttar Pradesh. | Photo Credit: GETTY IMAGES
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