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Anger rises as India swelters under record heatwave
2014-06-12 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Reuters: Swathes of north India are sweltering under the longest heatwave on record, triggering widespread breakdowns in the supply of electricity and increasingly angry protests over the government's failure to provide people with basic services. The power crisis and heatwave, which some activists say has caused dozens of deaths, is one of the first major challenges for Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who was elected three weeks ago partly on promises to provide reliable electricity supplies. In Delhi,...
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South Australia weather warning as floods follow record heatwave
2014-02-14 01:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: A severe weather warning remains in place for parts of South Australia, as Adelaide had its wettest February day since 1974. Emergency services on Friday are responding to dozens of call-outs, as flooded roads and fallen trees cause chaos to drivers and residents in the city. SES state duty officer Graeme Wynwood has warned drivers to take care. Following a long period of very dry weather, the roads are extremely slippery so it is imperative that motorists drive to the conditions, he said....
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Australia: Heatwave blamed for large spike in the number of deaths in Victoria last week
2014-01-24 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Australian Broadcasting Corporation: The heatwave that baked large parts of south-eastern Australia last week is being blamed for a large spike in the number of deaths in Victoria. More than 203 deaths were reported to the coroner, more than twice the average. The Victorian Institute of Forensic Medicine expects the number of deaths to reach that of the unprecedented heatwave in 2009, which is thought to have killed more than 370 people in Victoria alone. Temperatures across the south-eastern states regularly pushed above 40C...
Heatwave: Australia's grape growers watch their fortunes wither
2014-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Rod Gribble looks at his horror harvest through the haze of another 40-plus degree day. He's been up working since the early hours to beat the heat, only to be mauled by mosquitoes. Sunburnt grapes are shrivelled and brown on his farm on Savage Road at Bilbul, near Griffith in the state's south west. This season's yield of chardonnay grapes is so poor it's cheaper to let them rot on the vine than harvest what remains. ''No matter how much you water, the heat just dries them up,'' Mr Gribble,...
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Australia: More power to the people as heatwave hits
2014-01-18 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Sydney Morning Herald: Victoria is experiencing its first real heat wave since 2009, when three days of temperatures over 42 degrees in late January culminated in the infamous Black Saturday of February 7. On that day the temperature in Melbourne reached the highest ever recorded: 46.4 degrees. The current heatwave might not be quite as hot, but as it is likely to last four days with temperatures well in excess of 40 degrees, it will be one of the most extreme heatwaves we have ever experienced. This raises the question...
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