The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological Department continuously monitors weather and climate over Indian region. The annual mean land surface air temperature averaged over India during 2023 was …
Events like this weekend's super storm that smashed into eastern Australia are likely to become fewer in frequency in a warming world but pack more intensity when they hit, climate scientists say. The damaging event came just a month after the NSW government announced increased funds and a new coastal …
The production of hydro-power has dropped from 70 per cent in the 1980s to below 50 per cent, an expert has said. Energy Regulatory Commission director general Eng Joe Ng’anga said the effects of global warming are being felt and are hurting power generation. He said hydro-power heavily relies on …
With lightning on an average striking four persons dead in every five days during a year in Odisha, the fact of the matter is it simultaneously also indicates to some ‘thunderous’ upheavals happening in the State’s climatic landscape, especially, when Odisha had recorded on average around two deaths a day …
Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Society for Protection of Culture Heritage, Environment, Traditions & Promotions of National Awareness (CHETNA) Vs. Union of India & Others dated 03/06/2016 regarding water harvesting in Delhi. National Green Tribunal directs the NCT, Delhi, Central Ground Water Authority and Delhi …
TSIHOMBE, Madagascar (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Like many people in Madagascar's parched south, Ranotongae had been hoping for the heavens to open up and ease the country's poorest rainy season in 35 years. So when a few showers fell last month in Androy, one of the hardest-hit areas, the 44-year-old …
The skyman announce that it would strike the Kerala coast on June 7 (plus or minus four days). Hyderabad: Monsoons in Kerala this year would be delayed from the normal date of June 1 for the last 50 years. The skyman announce that it would strike the Kerala coast on …
Gurgaon: Midway through yet another excruciating summer, residents of Gurgaon's have come together to install a variety of rainwater harvesting systems in their respective standalone homes and private townships. In this arid region, depleting groundwater and lack of government effort towards harnessing monsoon rainwater has convinced many residents, their efforts …
Agricultural Minister Radha Mohan Singh on Tuesday said the farm sector growth will be good in 2016-17 with the country expected to receive normal monsoon rains this year after two consecutive drought years. Addressing a press conference about the achievements of his ministry in the first two years of the …
The report of on the Spot Study of Water Situation in Drought Affected Areas of the country (2015-16) has recommended construction of water harvesting structures, mass awareness among citizen for water conservation, construction of new water storage structures, interlinking of rivers, renovation and repair of existing water bodies as some …
Wrapped in a purple boubou (robe), Salou Moussa Maïga, 60, sits with his hands clasped between his knees and explains how climate change has fuelled violent conflict in Ansongo, Mali. As the president of a farming cooperative, he knows the cost of drought all too well. 'The rain period has …
Agriculture-related stocks continued to outperform benchmark indices and stayed high in May also on expectation of robust monsoon this year after consecutive years of drought in the past two years. Stocks such as Gujarat Narmada Valley Fertilizer & Chemical jumped 34 per cent on month-to-date basis till May 27. Others …
Is the idea of a dry monsoon beginning to parch your appetite for investing? The monsoon season. Does it evoke the idea of planning your finances? No, right? When you talk about the monsoon, what likely comes to mind is gushing rain, bumper harvests, and flooded streets. Perhaps even a …
Over 700 families in Tehri have been left temporarily homeless after heavy rainfall and thunderstorms wreaked havoc in the hill district of Garhwal. The death toll from rain and storm in Uttarkashi and Tehri rose to four on Monday while two persons are missing. Hundreds of houses were caught in …
At least 12 people were killed across Uttar Pradesh (UP) due to storms, lightning and heavy rains, an official said on Monday. According to the official, two people were killed in different incidents in Kanpur's Bilhaur area. One person was killed in Mau district when a wall caved in on …
Weatherman has forecast rain or thundershowers in most parts of West Bengal for the next two days Cloudbursts claimed six lives in Uttarakhand’s Tehri and Uttarkashi districts while there were scattered rain in other States, Odisha and Bihar, bringing down the mercury. A child died in Uttar Pradesh’s Bijnore district …
Several sites in Sydney have experienced their coldest May morning in 20 years, even as the city looks set to record its warmest autumn. Less than two weeks after well above average temperatures were recorded across the eastern states, Sydneysiders awoke to record cold weather and frost on Monday. Richmond …
Since amphibian declines were first proposed as a global phenomenon over a quarter century ago, the conservation community has made little progress in halting or reversing these trends. The early search for a “smoking gun” was replaced with the expectation that declines are caused by multiple drivers. While field observations …
GUANGZHOU - An extremely rare round of torrential rainfall that happened once in more than 200 years hit a city in south China's Guangdong Province, local authorities said Saturday. Xinyi, a small, county-level city in Maoming, saw 429.5 millimeters of rainfall in just six hours, according to the provincial flood …
Around 4,000 people from 800 families were rendered homeless due to floods at Dharmanagar, the headquarters of North Tripura district, while the arterial Assam-Agartala National Highway remained water logged cutting the state off from the rest of the country. Due to incessant rain since Tuesday night, entire Dharmanagar town and …
Guwahati/Silchar/Karimganj: At least 11 persons, including five of a family, were killed and seven others injured on Wednesday in separate landslides in Assam’s Barak Valley districts of Karimganj and Hailakandi along Mizoram. In Hailakandi district, two massive landslides claimed five lives in Bilaipur and injured a six-year-old boy in Ramchandi …
