HKS Snow Update 2025
<p>The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend,
Brahmaputra
-
Flood kills two in Assam, situation grim in Arunachal
Guwahati: Two persons were washed away by flood waters in Assam on Tuesday as the overall flood situation remained grim. Official sources said here one person each was drowned in flood waters in Tinsukia
-
Flood havoc: More than 25 villages inundated in Desangmukh
The flood situation in some parts of Sivasagar district has deteriorated due to incessant rains in the district. With the rise in the water level of Brahmaputra river, the flood waters of the river Desang
-
Fresh wave of flood claims three in Assam
Guwahati: The current fresh wave of flood induced by incessant rains since August 28 has so far claimed three lives in Assam while affecting over 7.35 lakh people from 1597 villages in 56 revenue circles
-
Agitators held for protests against hydroelectric project in Assam
Tezpur: Chatra Mukti Sangram Samitee (CMSS) members were on Thursday arrested at Gerukamukh while they were protesting against the ongoing construction of the 2000 mw Lower Subansiri Hydroelectric Power
-
Rs 207 crore for Assam flood: DoNER minister
Guwahati: The central government will release Rs.207 crore immediately to Assam to meet the expenditure incurred while repairing the damage caused by floods, DoNER Minister Jitendra Singh said here on
-
Flood fury affects Kaziranga National Park
The Brahmaputra has inundated nearly 33 forest camps of Kaziranga National Park (KNP). Burhapahar, Bagori, Kohora and Agaratoli forest range of KNP have been adversely affected by flood. The department
-
Flood scene grim, 3 lakh hit
Brahmaputra flowing above danger level throughout Upper Assam; Train movement hampered; Army pressed into rescue operation The flood situation in the State continued to deteriorate on Thursday, affecting
-
Uncertainty in global groundwater storage estimates in a total groundwater stress framework
Groundwater is a finite resource under continuous external pressures. Current unsustainable groundwater use threatens the resilience of aquifer systems and their ability to provide a long-term water source.
-
Drying of Indian subcontinent by rapid Indian Ocean warming and a weakening land-sea thermal gradient
<p>This new study led by an Indian scientist Dr Roxy Mathew Koll, from the Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology (IITM) Pune, points out a significant decreasing trend in the summer monsoon rainfall over the central Indian subcontinent during the past century. It suggests an important role of the rapid warming in the Indian Ocean in weakening of monsoon circulation and rainfall.</p>
-
Flood, landslides wreak havoc in N-E
2 dead in Arunachal Pradesh; 10 districts marooned in Assam as lakhs affected Torrential rain, flood and landslides have wreaked havoc in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and Assam, affecting lakhs of people.