Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of In Re: News Item titled "Are missing palm trees causing more lighting deaths in Bihar appearing in ‘The Times of India’ dated 29.05.2025". The original application was registered suo-motu based on the news item titled "Are missing palm trees causing …
The National Planning Commission (NPC), under the technical cooperation of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), is drafting a 20-year nature conservation strategy to address the new socio-economic and environmental challenges in the country. The strategy which is expected to complete by 2014 is an updated version of …
The government has implemented a number of accelerated programs to provide concessions to 11,459 families affected by the prevailing drought. Many people face immense difficulties as their daily income has been curtailed by damages to their crops. Such families will be identified and alternative livelihood programs will be started for …
Despite advances toward sustainable development, small island developing States (SIDS) continue to face many challenges, according to ‘Trends in Sustainable Development: SIDS,' a publication issued by the UN Department for Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Division for Sustainable Development (DSD) as an input to the Third International Conference on SIDS. …
At least 20 people were killed when a landslide triggered by heavy rain flattened Malin village, 110 km from Pune city, on Wednesday morning. Officials said the death toll was expected to mount as at least 150 people were missing after the landslide, which struck in the early hours when …
Disaster Management Ministry said that it had allocated Rs. 1900 million to assist drought victims. Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera yesterday told The Island that Rs. 1300 million had already been released to compensate drought victims in the Northern, Eastern, and North Central Provinces and Hambantota, Moneragala, Puttalam and Badulla …
Moderate to heavy rains lashed most parts of north India triggering landslides in Himachal Pradesh and Uttarakhand and causing rivers across the region to flow close to the danger mark at several places. People in Delhi were affected by extreme humidity which was recorded between 64 and 92 per cent, …
The 2014 Human Development Report—Sustaining Progress: Reducing Vulnerabilities and Building Resilience—looks at two concepts which are both interconnected and immensely important. This year's Report show that overall global trends are positive and that progress is continuing. Yet, lives are being lost, and livelihoods and development undermined, by natural or human-induced …
With rains lashing most parts of the higher reaches of the state, the rivers in Uttarakhand are flowing close to the danger mark, prompting the government to put the state's disaster response force on high alert. The MeT department in Dehradun has also predicted heavy rainfall in the state over …
A conference of international donors pledged more than 1.8 billion euros ($2.43 billion) on Wednesday to help Bosnia and Serbia recover from devastating floods in May. The European Commission, the EU executive, said the conference had mobilized pledges of 809 million euros for Bosnia and 995 million euros for Serbia, …
The Sindh government has decided to set up district disaster management authorities to be headed by deputy commissioners across the province to deal with monsoon rains. The decision was taken at a high level meeting presided over by Sindh Minister for Revenue, Relief and Rehabilitation Makhdoom Jamiluzzaman to review measures …
Disaster risk management is becoming increasingly important as population densities rise in urban areas around the world. A new report, Learning from Megadisasters, shares lessons learned from the Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami. Even poor countries with limited resources can build their capacity to prepare for and cope with …
Leaked draft communications strategy includes comments from the Environment Agency challenging funding claims The government’s drive to spin its cuts to flood protection funding has been revealed in a leaked communications strategy from the Department of Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), seen by the Guardian. In comments on the …
Forestry practices can play a vital role in landslide disaster management especially in view of the landslides in the Himalayan regions. The officiating director of the Forest Research Institute, Jayshree Ardey said this after inaugurating a national level training programme on forestry in landslide risk management which began at the …
An earthquake measuring 4.5 on the Richter scale, the second in a week’s time, hit Darma valley of the Uttarakhand district on Sunday evening prompting authorities to sound a general alert in the valley and the adjoining Johar valley, District Disaster Management authorities said on Monday. The earthquake occurred at …
The resilience of transport networks, homes, hospitals and water supplies in England need to be enhanced to counter the more frequent and severe flooding and heatwaves that can be expected in future. This is the key finding of a report by the UK government’s official adviser on preparing for climate …
The World Bank is lending Sri Lanka US$ 213 million to prevent the flooding in the country's economic capital of Colombo and increase its defenses against the natural disaster to safeguard the livelihoods of city's 2.5 million people and the economic health of the entire country. The metropolitan city faces …
The Scottish government has contributed £11.6m towards a £14.75m flood defence scheme for a Perthshire village. Work is to get under way on the flood defences at Almondbank later this year. The village lies on the River Almond, a tributary of the Tay near Perth, and the East Pow Burn, …
