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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Canal breach inundates standing crops
Standing crops including wheat and some localities were inundated as rainwater caused a 20-feet wide breach in Rajbah Mison near Alipur on Shah Jewna-Lalian Road, about some 40-km from here last night. According to reports, Alipur, Thattha Karana, Chund Phatak, Basti Odan Wali and other adjoining localities and fields were flooded with water due to this breach. Some mud houses in the areas were also collapsed. However, no loss of life was reported.
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Boro land submerged in flash flood
Boro land submerged in flash flood United News of Bangladesh . Jamalpur Flash flood in river Jamuna has submerged standing boro paddy fields of several hundred acres in char and low lying areas along the river. Farmers were seen on Saturday cutting the half ripen boro paddy in the affected areas of Islampur, Dewanganj and Sarishabari upazila.
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Expect A Warmer Summer -- But No Floods
Expect A Warmer Summer -- But No Floods UK: April 4, 2008 LONDON - This summer is expected to be warmer and perhaps slightly wetter than average but with little chance of a repeat of last year's devastating floods, the Met Office said on Thursday. "It looks like being a typical British summer," a spokesman said. "The risk of exceptional rainfall on the same scale as the summer of last year remains a very low probability."
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Xatradhikars' save-Majuli cry rends air
In an almost unprecedented development, xatradhikars of 13 xatras (neo-Vaishnavite monasteries) based here today sat on a mass demonstration at Kamalabari Ferry Ghat to draw the attention of the Gover
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Jamuna irrigation project in trouble
The 29-km long embankment from Sitalmari to Doboka town along the left bank of river Jamuna built by the Irrigation Department in 1993 is breaking apart at seven different places.
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US to provide 90,000 MT food aid
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) will provide approximately 90,000 metric tons of food aid worth $67.8 million to Bangladesh this year. One third of the food aid will be used to assist Cyclone Sidr affected people of Barguna and Bagerhat districts and the rest will be distributed as part of the USAID's regular food aid programmes in the flood-prone and seasonally food insecure areas of the country, a US Embassy press release yesterday said.
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Climate change risk: an adaptation and mitigation agenda for Indian cities
This paper considers the needed adaptation and mitigation agenda for cities in India
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Climate, climate change and human health in Asian cities
Climate change will affect the health of urban populations. It represents a range of environmental hazards and will affect populations where the current burden of climate-sensitive disease is high
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Post disaster management of water supply of Ambernath and Badlapur cities
During disaster, management of essential services is a daunting task. Water supply systems (WSS) are susceptible to natural disasters like earthquakes, floods and famine and also face threat from man-made disasters. Since water is the basic need of living being, restoring it is a major challenge to water engineers in such a scenarios.
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The colonial state, zamindars and the politics of flood control in north Bihar (1850-1945)
The colonial dispensation in north Bihar believed that the rivers of the flood plains needed to be controlled. The zamindar became the pivot around which the implementation of these flood control efforts revolved. Along with the railways and roads, the uncontrolled manner in which many zamindary embankments were built led to a deterioration in the flood situation.