India, June 2 -- Almost 76 per cent of the national capital is persistently heat-stressed, a condition worsened by the dramatic shrinking of the city's green cover, according to a new report released by Delhi-based think tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) on June 2, 2026.

"Geospatial analysis confirms that 75.78 per cent of Delhi's area is persistently heat-stressed, a condition worsened by the dramatic shrinking of the city's green cover. Current actions to contain this crisis are proving to be insufficient because of a lack of a targeted resilience strategy for highly vulnerable groups such as construction workers, street vendors and informal settlement dwellers, many of whom reside or work in heat hotspots," noted Making De...