The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
Climate-driven disasters such as bushfires and floods have cost Victorian taxpayers more than $4 billion over the last decade, it has emerged, as the Napthine Government released its plan for Victoria to prepare for the future impacts of climate change. The plan – released on Tuesday in state parliament – …
The Union Government has declared 17 districts in Gujarat as drought-affected, Rajya Sabha MP Parimal Nathwani has said. These districts are Vadodara, Bharuch, Anand, Kheda, Ahmedabad, Jamnagar, Amreli, Banashkantha, Bhavnagar, Gandhinagar, Junagadh, Kutchh, Mehsana, Patan, Porbandar, Rajkot and Surendranagar, Nathwani said in a statement issued here quoting Harish Ravat, Union …
At a time when neighbouring Maharashtra is facing the worst drought in 40 years, Gujarat is gearing up to conserve water on a war-footing: About five lakh people will gather in Rajkot district on May 5 to participate in a massive “yagna” at the end of a month-long save-water campaign …
U.N. agencies want to strengthen national drought policies after warnings that climate change would increase their frequency and severity. Droughts cause more deaths and displacement than floods or earthquakes, making them the world's most destructive natural hazard, according to the Food and Agriculture Organisation, one of the groups taking part. …
What does it say about the rest of India when Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi's pet project is reeling under corruption? Fake bills, inflated estimates, non-transparent contracts and sub-standard works have turned the Rs.7,466-crore Bundelkhand economic package into the latest multi-crore scam. Spread over 13 districts in Uttar Pradesh and Madhya …
300 Families In Amreli Have Shifted To Coastal Areas With 8,000 Cattle Rajkot: Dhandha nesh (traditional dwellings of maldharis) near Dhari, some 55 km from Amreli town, usually bustles with activity. People of this pastoral community sell milk to near-by dairies. In fact, this nesh is famous for its mava …
Mysore: A herd of elephants has been shifted from neardry Bandipur to a deeper Mulehole area inside the sanctuary where active water bodies and fodder still exist. Most of the waterholes and tanks in the Bandipur camp have gone dry in the very first week of summer, forcing the Bandipur …
The Madhya Pradesh government had announced a bonus of Rs 150 over and above the MSP Owing to arrival of the new wheat crop in western states, prices of the commodity have started falling. In Madhya Pradesh, set to be the largest wheat producer in a year, prices have fallen …
Mahatma Gandhi University Vice-Chancellor A.V. George has called for the preparation of a comprehensive water management plan for the entire State as it faced the possibility of a severe drought. He was inaugurating a seminar on ‘Groundwater Resource of Kerala: Retrospect and Prospects’ organised by the Department of Geology, Government …
Expert warns that people should not be seduced by disaster insurance, saying it is not a panacea for weather-related shocks In most developing countries, farmers risk losing their crops and livestock to droughts or floods, and the recent intensity of these climatic shocks has been record-setting. As the losses from …
The number of people affected by a fourth consecutive year of severe drought in Southwest China has increased to 1.53 million, the country's drought relief authority said Thursday. Lingering drought has affected 33.76 million mu (2.25 million hectares) of farmland in Southwest China's Yunnan and Sichuan provinces, according to the …
Millions of people in western India are suffering their worst drought in more than four decades, with critics blaming official ineptitude and corruption for exacerbating the natural water shortage. Central areas of Maharashtra state, of which Mumbai is the capital, are facing a water shortage worse than the severe drought …
Even as estimates of drought-related crop loss in the district have touched Rs 61 crore, a large number of minor irrigation projects, which are expected to provide solace to beleaguered farmers hit by wilting crops, have fallen by the wayside due to lack of maintenance and depleting water resources. There …
With animals in the Bandipur National Park (BNP) facing hardship due to acute scarcity of water, triggered by a bad drought, the Forest department has started supplying water to the partially dried-up water bodies inside the BNP. Wild animals, particularly elephant, tiger, deer and bison, are struggling to slake their …
Crop-friendly snowfall will be moving from the Northern Plains into the central and eastern Midwest overnight Monday and Tuesday, leaving up to an additional six to eight inches of snow, an agricultural meteorologist said on Monday. "Most of it will come tomorrow and cover northern Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky eastward," …
Some river levels fluctuated between their highest and lowest levels within the space of four months Britain must become more resilient to both drought and flooding, Environment Agency chairman Chris Smith has said. New figures from the agency show that one in every five days saw flooding in 2012, but …
More than 6 million people across Angola, Lesotho, Malawi and Zimbabwe are at risk of severe food shortages because of repeated cycles of drought and flooding, the global humanitarian body IFRC said on Monday. The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said the crisis was passing largely …
Chandy, team to put the demand before Prime Minister Kerala, facing a searing drought, will urge the Centre to sanction it a special Rs. 4,000-crore relief package. Chief Minister Oommen Chandy and his Cabinet colleagues will meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh with the request during their visit to Delhi on …
Maharashtra is one of the first states to have regulated its groundwater resources. However, two decades after it introduced a law banning sinking of private borewells or deeptube wells within 500 metres of a public drinking water source, brazen extraction of water continues, even in the 16 drought-hit districts of …
Fragmentation of landholdings, decreasing crop yield and drought are the major challenges to the agriculture sector in Karnataka, Chief Secretary S V Ranganath has said. The average landholding has nosedived to 1.55 hectares in 2010-11 from 3.2 hectares in 1970-71. The need of the hour is a technology that can …
