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Beware Hot AND Humid Days
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Mammals in heat-stressed places like India could exit the planet ‘Heat waves across India scream report after news report. Are we witnessing the critical survival point World Bank had warned about last year? In a first time for the planet, temperatures in India will cross the ‘wet bulb temperature’ and the country could see lives lost to heat stress, the report had said.

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Rise in Cases of Dengue, Zika and Chikungunya Predicted in Asia
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A recent WHO briefing suggests this week that climate change is driving Aedes mosquito driven disease to areas where they did not exist earlier while they will rise in those parts of the world where they are endemic such as Southeast Asia. High precipitation, increased temperature and even scarcity of water favours the breeding of mosquitoes. The virus and the mosquitos multiply faster in higher temperatures.

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Menopause: Misery or Not 

Are you on that side of your forties when you feel a little bloated from time to time and break out into sweat in the middle of the night? Even that splash of cold water or that ice pack couldn’t relieve you from the heat and it went away suddenly leaving you shivering?

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Be Conscious
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Of what you use and what you throw, lest you add to plastic islands in our oceans and land. Join your neighborhood armies that ‘plog’. Next time you buy a packet of Lays or Kurkure, hit the pause button. You are now eating the junk inside. A few weeks later you could be consuming that plastic too.

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This Army silently picks your litter
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The next time you chuck trash on the roads or in the park, give a thought to the ‘Ploggers’ It started with one man going on his morning jog with his eight-year old daughter. Not able to tolerate trash that defiled his revered planet, Nagraj started picking them up to dispose in the trash cans.

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