State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Floods
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Hundreds become homeless as rivers devour villages in Netrakona, C'nawabganj
With swelling of rain-fed Padma and Someshwari rivers in Chapainawabganj and Netrakona districts, hundreds of people have become homeless in a couple of days. Vast areas of cropland and a number of establishments including educational institutions are facing threats due to the erosion. Erosion has taken a serious turn along the banks of Someshwari River in bordering Durgapur upazila in Netrakona district due to sudden swelling of the river during the last three days due to torrential rain and rolling down of water from hilly areas in India.
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Take comprehensive plan to offset climate change impacts'
Speakers at a seminar yesterday underscored the need for taking a comprehensive working plan to offset the effects of climate change. They also emphasised creating awareness among both mass people and policymakers to this end. "We will not be able to stop climate change but it is possible to reduce the range of its bad effects,' said Mazharul Alam, research fellow of Bangladesh Centre for Urban Studies, at the seminar held at WVA auditorium in the city. Mazharul along with Sardar Shafiqul Alam of the same organisation presented the keynote paper at the seminar.
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South Asia
Kalabagh aborted: Pakistan
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How river engineering is tied to US floods
While environmentalists may blame climate change for the worst floods in the Midwest since 1993, dams and river straightening have a role too.
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Demo against flash floods
The Greater Guwahati Citizen's Coordination Committee has decided to stage a sit-in demonstration in front of the State Assembly during its monsoon session on the issue of artificial floods in the city. The committee condemned the government agencies on their laid back attitude on the civic problems of the city and failure to find any solution of the waterlogging problem in Guwahati, in a recent public meeting. Different speakers, experts and conscious citizens held the faulty government policies responsible for this problem, affecting every Guwahatian.
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Slight improvement in flood situation
The flood situation in the Purbo and Paschim Medinipur districts of West Bengal showed some improvement on Monday. The death toll climbed to 30 with 19 deaths reported from Paschim Medinipur and the rest from Purbo Medinipur since the floods hit the region last week after heavy rainfall and discharge of water from the reservoirs. Nearly 3 million people have been affected in the two districts, large parts of which still remain submerged, Minister for Disaster Management Mortaza Hossain said here. More than 7,800 villages in 32 blocks have been affected, he added.
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Flood-hit areas await survey a year after devastation
Almost a year has passed since floods inundated three tehsils in Makran around the Mirani Dam, but the government has not carried out a survey to determine the extent of losses. The flood inflicted property losses running into millions of rupees and dislocated several hundreds of families. Thousands of displaced flood victims are still living in tents while others have been forced to live in the open after their houses were washed away in the heavy flood that affected the Turbat district.
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Canal breach floods villages, farmland
Two villages, Beguli Buledi and Karim Dino Buledi, and hundreds of acres of agricultural land were inundated after Begari Canal developed a 100-foot wide breach near Garhi Khairo late on Sunday night. The affected villagers, Karim Bux Buledi, Ghulam Mohammad Buledi and other blamed irrigation officials for the breach and said that they did not take any notice despite several complaints about vulnerability of the canal's embankments, which ultimately caused them losses of millions of rupees. The breach had not been plugged till the filing of this report.
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Flood damages aman seedbeds in Lalmonirhat
The recent flood has damaged seedbeds of aman paddy on 20 bighas (one bigha is 0.1338 hectare) of land in Lalmonirhat. Different areas of the district including Kalmati, Khuniyagachh, Rajpur, Tajpur, Milon Bazar under sadar upazila, Gobordhan, Mohishkhocha, Bala Para under Aditmari upazila, Char Kakina, Jamir Bari, Votmari, under Kaliganj upazila and Goddimari, Daliya, Dowani, Paruliya, Sindurna under Hatibandha upazila of the district have been inundated by the recent flood.