Tag: heatwave

"FORETASTE OF THE FUTURE" At the global scale, there has been a reduction over the past two decades in the total burned area, as a result of decreasing numbers of ...

BEIJING: China has logged its hottest August since records began, state media reported Tuesday (Sep 6), following an unusually intense summer heatwave that parched rivers, scorched crops and triggered isolated ...

“We used to bake five rounds a day and then we can still cover our operating costs. Now we only open at 4pm. We bake just once a day and ...

Wang, who grows rice and an assortment of vegetables, said several of his chickens had died. “For 10 days or so, the chicken pen was so hot, even my largest ...

EXTREME WEATHER IS "THE NEW NORMAL"  "These individual events fit a pattern of increasing extreme events due to climate change," said Professor Matthias Roth from the Department of Geography at ...

JIUJIANG: Teams of drillers are working long hours to build wells to fight a devastating drought sweeping parts of China, farmers in Jiujiang city in the country's central Jiangxi province ...

A blistering heatwave has engulfed China in the country's hottest summer on record, subsuming half its land in drought. The world's second-largest economy has experienced more than 70 days of ...

BEIJING: A crippling drought exacerbated by a record heatwave has spread out across half of China and reached the normally frigid Tibetan Plateau, according to official data released ahead of ...

SHANGHAI: Extreme heat in China played havoc with crops and power supplies on Wednesday (Aug 24) despite lower temperatures in some regions, with authorities across the Yangtze river basin scrambling ...

SHANGHAI: The southwestern Chinese regions of Chonqging and Sichuan were battling fires on Tuesday (Aug 23) as they awaited a long-anticipated drop in temperatures over the next week, but the ...