As climate change intensifies, it is imperative for policymakers to address the escalating loss and damage it inflicts on vulnerable communities in developing countries. In India's Maharashtra state, these impacts are forcing rural families into life-altering decisions and migrations to work in sugarcane fields, where exploitative practices by contractors, including …
Mexico is suffering from its driest year in 68 years, killing crops and cattle in the countryside and forcing the government to slow the flow of water to the crowded capital. Below-average rainfall since last year has left about 80 of Mexico's 175 largest reservoirs less than half full, said …
The Maldives on Wednesday said a budget crisis will keep its president from attending landmark U.N. climate talks, the results of which could have a huge effect on the future of the low-lying archipelago. Famed mostly for its high-end luxury resorts and white-sand atolls, the Maldives has also made a …
A nine-member central team today arrived here to assess the extent of drought damage in the state. The team, headed by managing director of Horticulture Mission Board Bijay Kumar, will visit Dumka, Lohardaga, Latehar, Palamau, Gumla, Jamtara, Jasidih, Deoghar, Giridih, Chatra and Garhwa districts from tomorrow.
When Uttar Pradesh declared 47 of its districts as drought-hit, sugar mill owners of the state were left feeling bitter. Large parts of the cane belt are located in these districts that saw many sugar mills come up over the past several years. Already reeling under a low cane production …
With three quarters of all districts receiving deficient rainfall so far and the overall rain deficit worsening since last week, the country seems headed into the worst drought year over the last two decades. Signalling the seriousness of the crisis, the Government set up a 10-member Empowered Group of Ministers …
Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi while taking part in a high-level meeting held to review the drought-like situation today said that he would instruct all the Ministers to take up the cases of the farmers not getting loans with the banks in their respective districts. He also told the participants of …
Britain must find ways to grow more food while using less water, energy and fertilizers to help feed a growing world population and offset the effects of climate change on agriculture, the government said on Monday. A senior minister said last year's sharp rise in the cost of food and …
New Delhi: Though the government is still chary of pronouncing a full-scale crisis over the errant monsoon and depleted sowing, prospects of more parts of the country being declared drought affected are increasing with the Met department on Monday downgrading its rainfall forecast from 93% of long-term average to 87%. …
It is not just crops and fruits which would suffer on account of drought but power generation in the state was likely to be hit as it was expected that generation would be far less than the target for the year. This was stated by Chief Minister PK Dhumal in …
All political parties of Bihar today resolved to declare the state as drought hit and sought adequate financial help from the Centre to meet the crisis. The all-party meeting held here today to discuss the issue of drought also decided to send a joint memorandum to the Centre in this …
Bringing back grim memories of the past, an agrarian tragedy threatens to engulf Andhra Pradesh as result of the failure of the monsoon, triggering suicides by farmers. With the authorities grappling with severe drought conditions prevalent in almost four-fifths of the state
Lawyers for New York City are trying to convince a jury in a federal trial that Exxon Mobil knew that an additive that it used in gasoline would contaminate groundwater. The trial, which began on Tuesday before Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of United States District Court in Manhattan, is one …
Ranchi, Aug. 6: The state will seek a Rs 391-crore relief package from the Centre to battle drought. Chief secretary A.K. Basu today left for New Delhi with a proposal for the Union agriculture ministry. Adviser to the governor G. Krishnan, who holds charge of the agriculture department, told The …
The Uttar Pradesh Government has sought a special package from Union Government of Rs 7789 crore to fight drought, an official spokesman said here on Thursday. The State Agriculture Minister Chaudhry Laxmi Narain met the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in New Delhi and requested him to release the relief …
LUCKNOW: Even as political parties continued to point fingers and accuse one another of not doing enough for the drought-hit farmers, a petty farmer committed suicide in Lalitpur district of Bundelkhand after his crop failed because of virtually no rainfall. This is the first known case of drought-related suicide since …
SAMBALPUR: Is Sambalpur heading for a drought? Well, if it does not rain for another week the farmers fears might just turn out to be true. While delayed monsoon has led to cultivation on only about 60 per cent land till now, those who dared to go ahead with cultivation …
Shokha Ram Das (65) stares at his five bigha land in Dumdumi village under Chharra gram panchayat, nearly 12 km south of Purulia town, awaiting the rains. With just 2 per cent cultivation till date, nearly 280,000 hectares of agricultural land in the district is lying vacant, facing a near …
