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 …
In the first hours of March's accident at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, workers rushed to flood three damaged reactors with sea water to prevent a catastrophic meltdown. Three months later, water is still being pumped into the cores and has become the biggest obstacle to cleaning up the …
This report explores issues at the nexus of climate-related disasters and development. It takes stock of the needs and capabilities of the humanitarian community and assesses the types of climate-related information products that may help inform the decision-making process. The document identifies the data and research requirements necessary to improve …
This report presents a strategy for scaling adaptation to climate change impacts within urban areas. It approaches the adaptation challenge within the overall context of other pressing risks and development challenges confronting the world’s urban regions. The strategy specifi cally focuses on the requirements for mobilizing large amounts of capital …
This summary provides an overview of the report on Climate Change, Disaster Risk, and the Urban Poor: Cities Building Resilience for a Changing World. This report examines the interlinkages between climate change, disaster risk, and the urban poor, underscoring four key messages: The urban poor are on the front line; …
The document analyses past experiences in disaster recovery to facilitate a more relevant, sustainable and risk-reducing recovery process focused on climate resilient livelihoods, infrastructure, institution building, and community-based approaches towards climate resilience.
In this NBR Special Report, a team of experts assess nontraditional security threats in South Asia and explore how these threats challenge the region's traditional security environment. Dennis Pirages (University of Nevada, Las Vegas) sets the stage with an explanation of nontraditional security crises, demonstrating that global climate change and …
Bangladesh should go for calculating disaster losses so that it could make prior investments to reduce peoples' vulnerabilities and economic losses caused by disasters, experts said yesterday. While casualty rate from disasters came down in Bangladesh and elsewhere, financial loses from a large proportion of damage to local infrastructure, housing …
The Inter-governmental Expert Group Meeting to finalise the draft South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) Agreement on Rapid Response to Natural Disasters has begun yesterday at the Traders Hotel. This meeting is attended by all SAARC member states except Afghanistan. The idea of establishing a mechanism for rapid response …
Bangladesh Climate Change Trust Fund (CCTF) yesterday approved six public sector projects involving around Tk 60.78 crore. The approval was given at the 12th meeting of the trusty board held at the conference room of the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) with State Minister Dr Hasan Mahmud in the …
Although two years have passed since the devastating cyclone Aila hit in the coastal regions, approximately 54,530 people from 10,906 households continue to love in makeshift huts on the embankment damaged by the cyclone, and outside the ring embankment. Cyclone Aila hit the coastal area May 25, 2009. Over two …
The sun shone for the first time in days on this devastated city on Tuesday, illuminating the full extent of the damage as rescue workers performed the grim task of searching for survivors and victims in buildings leveled by the United States
With weeks to go before the flood waters of the crested Mississippi River fully recede, officials in Vicksburg, Mississippi, are advising caution and preparing for an aggressive cleanup. "We are urging everyone to be patient," Mayor Paul Winfield told Reuters on Saturday. "They need to stay away from their homes …
A consortium of international agencies is initiating a Tk 1,000 million project to provide support for food security and livelihoods of 211,265 people severely affected by Cyclone Aila over the last two years, of which sixty percent are women, for assisting in their rehabilitation process. The agencies include four members …
Elizabeth Hausler aims to bring quake-resistant construction to the developing world : Interview. http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21028138.300-quake-engineer-earthquakes-dont-kill-buildings-do.html
As part of its long-term commitment towards flood victims, Engro Polymer and Chemicals Ltd (EPCL) continues to instill a new sense of hope among people whose lives were completely devastated last year by the most catastrophic flood disaster in the history of Pakistan. The EPCL recently initiated its agriculture rehabilitation …
The Centre on Thursday sanctioned an additional Rs 200 crore for Bundelkhand with the allocation aimed at addressing drinking water problems in the districts belonging to the region. The fresh infusion, over and above the Rs 7,266 crore special package that was announced for the region, following intervention Rahul Gandhi, …
A Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) worth $2.6 million was signed between the Italian Government and Provincial Disaster Management Authority (PDMA) on implementation of the Italian Early Recovery and Rehabilitation Program. Italian ambassador Vincenzo Prati and Shakeel Qadir Khan, Director General PDMA have signed MoU Wednesday to support disaster affected population …
In October 1998, a hurricane visited death and destruction on Honduras, with flooding and mudslides. A case history of a rural community documents how recovery from that event produced socio-economic improvement.
