The prevailing ‘super El Nino’ over the equatorial Pacific might cause around 15,800 additional heat-related deaths in India over the next six months, compared to a normal year, a new study claimed on Wednesday.
The climate phenomenon could push global land temperatures 1.2 degrees Celsius above normal in the coming months, resembling the higher temperatures that climate change is projected to deliver in the next 20 years, the report by the University of Chicago’s Energy Policy Institute said.
El Nino conditions that emerged in June are expected to intensify into “a very strong event” in the coming months and persist through February 2027, the World Meteorological Organization said.
This will result in about 239,000 excess deaths worldwide between September this year and February 2027, the report claimed. “Over just the next six months, the report projects 66,800 additional deaths across the Sahel in Africa. (PTI)
Thursday, September 24, 2026