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 …
Bombay high court is slated to hear on Friday will hear a public interest litigation for direction to the State government to complete its scheme to supply water through pipelines to 69 villages in Vasai and Virar municipal areas. A division bench of Justice Dhananjay Chandrachud and Justice Suresh Gupte …
The Climate Change Trustee Board on Tuesday approved 22 projects with an estimated cost of Tk 77 crore to tackle the adverse impacts of climate change. The approval was given in the 29th meeting of Climate Change Trust Fund which was held at secretariat, sources in the board said. The …
State govt says the ordinance will lead to lower entitlement of foodgrains from the current 35 kg to 25 kg The Gujarat government has alleged that the Centre's National Food Security Ordinance (NFSO), which awaits Parliament approval is fraught with inconsistencies and will neither fulfill the nutritional needs nor will …
Uttar Pradesh has fared badly in utilising the financial assistance received under the Bundelkhand Package managing to spend only 43.89 per cent of the money allocated to it as Additional Central Assistance (ACA) by the Planning Commission. Of the Rs 1,695.76 crore allocated to it as ACA for seven districts …
Framers in Mahottari district are worried over drought harming their crops following a dry spell for long. It is quite uncanny that some areas in this district have not received rain even when heavy downpour has caused havoc in neighbouring districts and other parts of the country over the last …
Karnataka is facing a strange phenomenon: it's in the grip of a drought and floods at the same time. The floods have followed two successive years of drought. In the last week of July, five districts bore the brunt of flash floods following heavy rains. Now, the spectre of drought …
Low rainfall in the state has more than affected crops this kharif season and is forcing farmers to migrate to other parts of the country for livelihood. Most of the men in remote villages here have already started moving to states like Bangalore, Raipur, Kerala, Mumbai in search of work. …
Two years before the 2015 deadline, Bangladesh has achieved most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) set by the United Nations, but the impacts of climate change pose a threat to the country's progress, experts say. "The threat of climate change can diminish the hard-earned beneficial impacts of years of …
Judgement of the Gujarat High Court in the matter of Citizens Resource & Action Initiative (CRANTI) Vs State of Gujarat dated 10/07/2013 regarding farmer suicides in Gujarat. This Application in the nature of a Public Interest Litigation has been filed for financial compensation of Rs. 5 lac to be paid …
The world suffered unprecedented climate extremes in the decade to 2010, from heatwaves in Europe and droughts in Australia to floods in Pakistan, against a backdrop of global warming, a United Nations report said on Wednesday. Every year of the decade except 2008 was among the 10 warmest since records …
Global warming accelerated since the 1970s and broke more countries’ temperature records than ever before in the first decade of the new millennium, UN climate experts said Wednesday. A new analysis from the World Meteorological Organisation says average land and ocean surface temperatures from 2001 to 2010 rose above the …
The world experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes during the 2001-2010 decade, which was the warmest since the start of modern measurements in 1850 and continued an extended period of pronounced global warming. More national temperature records were reported broken than in any previous decade, according to a new report by …
When it comes to planning ahead of natural disasters, Andhra Pradesh is way behind with none of the hi-tech gadgets working and a special disaster management group non-existent, the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) said in its report. In the wake of increasing controversy over helping pilgrims from …
President Barack Obama's climate plan on Tuesday offered help to U.S. cities dealing with natural disasters and specifically for the region slammed by massive Superstorm Sandy in October. For Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey the plan came not a moment too soon. Hoboken, across the Hudson River from …
Maharashtra Government on Wednesday decided to set aside Rs 470 crore for a micro-irrigation scheme, to be implemented from this year. The decision was taken in today’s cabinet meeting chaired by the Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan. On account of severe drought until this month, the Congress-NCP government has come in …
Severely hit by drought since the past few years, the Maharashtra government has outlined a Rs 60,000 crore programme which includes creating decentralised water storage to make the state drought free in three years. "Maharashtra is reeling under severe drought crisis. We have outlined an investment of Rs 60,000 crore …
Conflicts over water diversion during the drought. This report exposes cases of wrong prioritization of water resources to thermal power plants. Maharashtra is experiencing its worst drought in 40. The Governor of Maharashtra in his address to the state legislature in March this year had stated that more than 11800 …
Some 800,000 people will require food aid in Niger in the coming months despite a good harvest last year due to problems supplying cereals to markets, which have pushed up prices, and an influx of Malian refugees, the United Nations said. The U.N. office for humanitarian coordination (OCHA) said they …
The Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act has often been ridiculed as a scheme that has hardly any impact. Many say that MGNREGA workers just 'dig and fill holes,' but scientists from premier science institutions seem to think differently. At a time when the Mahatma Gandhi Rural Employment Guarantee Act …
The Mahindra Group has committed Rs 2 crore to the Maharashtra Government to provide relief to those affected by drought in the State. Maharashtra is facing a severe drought, with 15 districts and over 11,000 towns adversely affected by the lack of water and fodder for cattle. While Rs 1 …
