The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
International aid agency Oxfam on Tuesday claimed that government is still not prepared for current year's monsoon floods and other natural disasters despite passage of one year after worst flooding. Two to five million people are likely to be affected by floods during the current monsoon season, according to the …
Pakistan has failed to invest in prevention measures since last year`s floods that killed 1,750 people and is vulnerable to another disaster this monsoon season, Oxfam said on Tuesday. The relief agency marked one year since the beginning of the 2010 disaster, when flooding inundated a third of Pakistan, by …
The district administration of Mansehra has declared 18 villages and towns along the Kunhar and Siren rivers as highly dangerous in view of floods in the monsoon season. Chairing the pre-monsoon planning meeting here on Wednesday, District Coordination Officer Umber Ali Khan said that Rs10 million had been transferred to …
The district administration of Mansehra has declared 18 villages and towns along the Kunhar and Siren rivers as highly dangerous in view of floods in the monsoon season. Chairing the pre-monsoon planning meeting here on Wednesday, District Coordination Officer Umber Ali Khan said that Rs10 million had been transferred to …
This publication highlights the issues related to Community-managed disaster risk reduction (CMDRR). It contains articles contributed by disaster risk reduction practitioners from different agencies and reflects a unique aspect of multi-stakeholder perspective. It also highlights how to enhance actions at local levels with local community. The theme of the articles …
It took farmer Ghulam Hussain almost a year to start re-building his house, destroyed last year in floods that left vast swathes of Pakistan underwater, and disrupted the lives of more than 18 million people. Now, his small, two-room mud and brick house -- just a few hundred meters from …
Chief Minister Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Ameer Haidar Khan Hoti has approved a comprehensive contingency plan for controlling possible devastated flood during monsoon rains and directed PDMA for ensuring provision of assistance materials, food and other needs in flood vulnerable areas. Protection to lives and property of people, timely provision of assistance …
Iran said it launched a satellite into orbit on Wednesday that Western aerospace experts said could be used for limited military reconnaissance and also to monitor crops and track damage from earthquakes, flooding and other natural disasters. It was the second time that an Iranian rocket had carried a satellite …
The Punjab Government today sanctioned Rs 122 crore to enable the Irrigation Department to complete flood protection measures before the onset of the monsoon in the state. Irrigation Minister Janmeja Singh Sekhon said the amount would be spent on strengthening the 1,198-km-long embankments, training 3,800 workers and de-silting the 7,233-km-long …
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 …
NEW DELHI: Wiser from the Japanese experience, the government is set to mandate installation of dosimeters -- that measure radiation -- in 35 large cities, apart from stipulating that home loans and infrastructure lending be available only to projects compliant with national disaster preparedness norms. These are expected to be …
The aim of the Himachal Pradesh State Disaster Management Policy is to provide guiding principles for reducing, preventing, mitigating disaster risk and creating a system for effective disaster response. The policy also aims at providing guidelines for post disaster relief, rehabilitation and reconstruction codes and guidelines.
Say experts on the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl and Fukushima nuclear disasters and the effect they have had on vast numbers should be enough to sound a note of caution against use of nuclear energy in India, said members of a coalition for nuclear disarmament on …
JAMMU, Chief Minister, Omar Abdullah on Wednesday underlined the need of a comprehensive and well structured policy for Disaster Management in the State to deal with incidents of natural calamities and disasters appropriately. "All the necessary requirements of 3Ps (prevention, preparedness and proofing) and 3Rs (rescue, relief and rehabilitation) should …
The Trinamul Congress supremo, Miss Mamata Banerjee, today said that if elected to power in West Bengal, her government would ensure industrialisation in the state but asserted that it would not acquire land for setting up private industries. Breaking her mum on CPI-M's continuous attack on using black money by …
disasters strike when they are least expected, causing untold devastation and disruption of life, besides laying waste huge swathes of land. Now, meteorologists have developed sophisticated tools to help minimise casualties and damage. Curtin University
INDIA is constructing six nuclear power plants—two each at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, Kakrapar in Gujarat, and Rawatbhata in Rajasthan. Together, they will generate 4,800 MWe of power, states the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board’s website. This is a big leap towards enhancing the country’s nuclear stature. But is the country …
SOONER or later, America will suffer an earthquake as devastating as the one that has wreaked havoc on northern Japan. It could happen next week, next year or next century; it has happened on numerous occasions in the past, and will happen again. The best that can be done is …
Under the Tsunami Rehabilitation Programme supported by the KSCSTE, KFRI planted Casuarina and other tree species in a strip of 32 km length along the coastal areas of Thrissur District to establish a bio-shield.
The national climate change policy provides a framework for addressing the issues that Pakistan faces or will face in future due to the changing climate. In view of Pakistan’s high vulnerability to adverse impacts of climate, in particular extreme events, adaptation effort is the main focus of this policy document. …
