India prepares contingency plans due to weak monsoon season
Monsoon rains so far have been 43 percent below average, which is expected to impact India’s crops.
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UN tells world to brace for extreme weather as El Nino looms
Potential impacts, including floods, drought and heatwaves, could ‘hit even harder’ this year, UN chief warns.
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How could El Nino reshape tropical storms around the world this year?
El Nino tends to reduce hurricanes in the Atlantic while increasing storms in the Pacific Ocean.
Rescuers race to save two people still trapped in cave in Laos
Rescuers face heavy rains, equipment failures in search for two people trapped in central Laos cave by flash floods.
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Europe hit by record-breaking heatwave
European countries are issuing heat warnings as an unseasonal heatwave drives record temperatures across the continent.
Published On 28 May 2026
Hottest year on record almost certain to occur by end of 2030, UN warns
Warning comes as Western Europe experiences a heatwave, with temperatures reaching highs not expected until the summer.
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Parisians defy swimming ban to cool off as record heat hits Europe
Parisians cooled off in the city’s Saint-Martin canal as an unprecedented heatwave pushed temperatures across Europe.
Published On 28 May 2026
India is being left to die in the heat
Modi denied climate change for years. Now, as heat deaths mount, his government offers branding instead of protection.
Duststorms and lightning kill at least 96 people in northern India
Storms are common in northern India from March to June, before the annual monsoon rains arrive.
A salt pan worker rakes salt on an alkali flat in the Little Rann of Kutch region in Gujarat. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
In the blinding white glare of the salt flats, workers rake shallow pans of brine each day, coaxing out crystals that help Gujarat produce most of India’s salt. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
Regular raking of the salt pans ensures even crystalisation. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
Researchers say the salt pan workers in Gujarat suffer from high levels of dehydration and early signs of kidney malfunction. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
On the remote salt pans with no electricity or healthcare, the workers rely on a single water tanker that arrives every 25 days to supply all their drinking and washing needs. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
A salt pan worker holds a handful of harvested salt. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
Despite rising heatwaves and storms that can erase months of work overnight, salt pan families return to the Little Rann each year, saying they have no other way to earn a living. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
A salt pan worker carries a rare pair of rubber boots as she walks across an alkali flat in Gujarat’s Little Rann of Kutch. The protective footwear shields workers’ feet from corrosive brine that can crack exposed skin so deeply it bleeds. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
Rows of white salt mounds rise out of the desert, the result of weeks of raking and shovelling by families who earn only a few hundred dollars for a season’s labour. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
A truck drives past solar panels while transporting harvested salt from an alkali flat at the Little Rann of Kutch region in Gujarat. [Shammi Mehra/AFP]
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‘A calamity’: Why is a record heatwave sweeping South Asia?
Countries including India, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have experienced temperatures soaring well above seasonal averages.
