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 …
Sangli/Satara: It's not only the Centre's much-anticipated relief package that political parties are trying to hijack. Politicians cutting across party lines have been touring the 15 drought-hit districts of the state, doling out platitudes. These tours have now started rankling locals who believe the visits are nothing more than mere …
Met chief says El Nino may affect showers The monsoon is likely to hit the southern tip of the country on time in the first week of June, said India’s top weather department official on Thursday, a week before the official forecast, lifting hopes of better farm output for the …
Maharashtra is struggling to cope with one of the most severe drought crises in recent times, with many terming it worse than the historic drought of 1972. Rivers have gone dry and the dams are proving insufficient for even drinking water, let alone irrigation. In 12 worst-hit districts, many farmers …
The Maharashtra Pradesh Congress Committee has set up an 'emergency assistance committee' to tackle issues related to scarcity of water and fodder due to drought situation in the state. The cell has been set up by MPCC chief Manikrao Thakre to coordinate relief efforts in view of the drought, MPCC …
Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar on Wednesday said decision would be taken soon on drought-related assistance demanded by Maharashtra. "A central team visited Maharashtra after the state sought aid and submitted its report. The high-powered committee comprising Union ministers Pranab Mukherjee, P Chidambaram, myself and Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek …
BJP MPs demanded changes in norms for enhancement of compensation for drought. NEW DELHI: Opposition BJP walked out of Rajya Sabha as the government ruled out any changes in norms till 2015 for providing relief in cases of drought. The opposition members were not satisfied by the government's reply on …
Corals, trees and marine sediments, among others, are direct evidence of the climate of the past, but they are not the only indicators. A team led by Spanish scientists has interpreted records written in Iraq by Arabic historians for the first time and has made a chronology of climatic events …
In an effort to help the areas reeling under the drought along the Maharashtra and Karnataka border, chief minister Prithviraj Chavan (pictured right), on Monday, sought help from the neighbour state. “I have urged the government of Karnataka to release water from its dam to meet the water crisis in …
MUMBAI: Two days after Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi assured assistance to villagers of drought-hit Satara, the Centre on Monday 'favourably' recommended a Rs 1,110 crore relief package for Maharashtra, thereby confirming that 15 districts in the state are indeed hit by serious drought. This is a shift from the …
By 2025, coastal areas of Pakistan and neighbouring regions have climate resilient ecosystems to support the livelihood/lives of coastal communities. The specific objective for 5 years period (2011-2015) of the project is that “ By 2015, government and community climate adaptation capacity is increased and water governance strengthened, to improve …
BHUBANESWAR: The Water Resources Department has drawn up schemes to provide water for cultivation from different rivers and reservoirs in the drought-affected areas of the State through 15,000 check dams and 174 mega lift points. Official sources said 5,000 check dams will be completed by June. The State Government had …
“India's farmers need to change with the times to enhance their efficiency” Experts taking part in a panel discussion on agricultural technology here over the weekend laid emphasis on giving a fillip to farm technology and underscored the need for adopting modern methods to boost farm productivity, even as the …
MUMBAI: The state may agree to release an additional 1.96 TMC from its dams to Karnataka, which is facing a drought. However, with a drought-like situation in nine districts here, the state also wants the Karnataka government to act in kind. During a meeting with a delegation of ministers and …
MUMBAI: Governor K Sankaranarayanan on Monday asked the Congress-NCP government to set up village or tehsil level monitoring committees to tackle the worst-ever drought across the state. "Schemes drafted by the state government to tackle the drought are good and will certainly yield results but now it's the responsibility of …
SAMBALPUR: Resentment is brewing among the farmers of Sambalpur district after the State Government excluded it from the drought-hit districts’ list. Despite the fact that large tracts of agricultural land are under Hirakud Command Area, there is no denying that in the last kharif season untimely rains and pest attacks …
Climate change is happening now and is not some distant future event: World Meteorological Organization general secretary. The rate of climate change accelerated in the period 2001-2010—the warmest decade ever recorded worldwide, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said in its preliminary findings for its report titled Decadal Global Climate Summary. …
Bhubaneswar: The State Assembly on Thursday witnessed uproarious scenes as both Opposition and Treasury Bench members engaged in verbal exchanges with Congress members occupying the Speaker’s podium on day two of the second phase of the Budget Session, leading to adjournment of the House eight times including five times in …
BHUBANESWAR: With the dust of panchayat polls slowly settling down, the Government on Thursday announced the much-awaited drought relief for the affected. According to Revenue and Disaster Management Minister SN Patro, 13,032 villages of 133 blocks and 156 wards of 34 urban local bodies in 19 districts are drought-hit. Seven …
Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government on Thursday declared 13,032 villages, which suffered a crop loss of 50 percent, in 19 districts as drought affected and announced a special package for farmers. The drought areas are spread over 133 blocks and 156 wards of 34 urban local bodies in 19 of the …
From wildlife ecology and conservation biology to behavioural endocrinology, environmental policy and conservation planning, it has been a long journey for Tatjana Good to pursue her academic interests. A voyage that has taken her around the world, from the U.S. and Switzerland where she grew up, to Australia and India. …
