Droughts

Women paying the cost of the climate crisis with their wombs: quantifying loss and damage faced by women battling drought, debt and migration

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 …

Climate change could pose threat to conservation: expert

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. …

Drought kills 5.6 mn trees in US state

HOUSTON: An estimated 5.6 million trees were killed by last year's devastating drought in the US state of Texas, authorities said Wednesday. The estimates also mean that as much as 10 percent of the state's urban forest was wiped out during the drought, according to Texas Forest Service. "This estimate …

Forest dept turns to acacia, shisham to shore up Mattewara reserve

In an attempt to shore up the green cover at Ludhiana’s Mattewara reserve, the forest department has begun replacing the traditional eucalyptus trees with Shisham and Acacia ones instead. The forest cover, spread across 1755 hectares, has remained static in the last few years despite repeated plantation drives. Forest officials …

Political drought leaves Banda starving

BANDA/CHITRAKOOT: Sunita's hands tremble as she picks up a heavy hammer to break a stone boulder in Narhari village, about 40 km from main Banda city. It has been more than three hours since the 18-yearold has been doing what her father Jagat Pal never wanted. "But we do not …

Drought hits Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh; food prices set to surge

PUNE: Maharashtra teeters on the brink while Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh, two key states contributing significantly to grain production, have already declared a drought, potentially exacerbating agrarian distress and adversely impacting food prices. Supply of pulses, sugarcane, oilseeds, soyabean and coarse grain such as bajra and jowar, is likely to …

State likely to clock 10% farm growth

Bhopal : Driven by this year’s record rainfall and increased cultivation area of wheat, pulses and other crops, Madhya Pradesh’s agriculture growth is likely to cross 10% this fiscal. Beating extreme weather conditions, MP clocked 9% agricultural growth, surpassing the national average of 0.04% in 2009. The state achieved the …

Phillippines collaboration to upscale rice farming in State’

NEW DELHI: Meghalaya will quadruple its rice production with a mission mode approach that too in a organic way in collaboration with the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI), Chief Minister Dr Mukul Sangma who just returned from his visit to Philippines said. Talking to The Shillong Times here, Dr Sangma …

17 districts get drought tag

BHUBANESWAR: The State Government declared 17 of the 30 districts as drought-affected on Thursday. The announcement comes a day after Opposition Congress and BJP slammed the BJD Government for the alleged delay in providing assistance to the affected farmers. The decision was taken after receiving reports on possible crop loss …

Rs 4,724 crore supplementary budget presented

BHUBANESWAR: Finance Minister Prafulla Chandra Ghadei placed the supplementary budget of Rs 4,724.62 crore in the Assembly on Monday. Ghadei said adequate provision has been made in the budget towards Odisha’s share of Centrally-sponsored plan for getting more Central assistance. Besides, provisions have been made for better implementation of welfare …

IPCC: Waiting on climate escapism

Leaders who wait for further evidence about the perils of greenhouse gases are flirting with escapism, the head of the UN’s Nobel-winning climate scientists says. “You cannot possibly keep waiting forever for new evidence of global warming to act,” Rajendra Pachauri, head of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), …

Protracted dry spell gives farmers sleepless nights

With no rain since the second week of September, the protracted dry spell is giving sleepless nights to farmers in the hill state, a majority of whom have already completed the sowing of rabi crops. Barring plains like Una and some other pockets, which have assured irrigation, sowing has been …

Climate change affects NE agriculture

AGARTALA: Climate change has taken it’s toll on agriculture sector of northeast over the years, which prompted the scientists to go for vulnerability assessment and issuing warning to both farming community and agriculture mangers. Scientists had observed higher agricultural vulnerability in the northern parts of the region and the same …

All smiles for bumper harvest

Jharkhand has produced more rice than it needs this season, thanks to the monsoon bounty after three consecutive years of drought, enabling the state to set up procurement centres in all 24 districts for the first time. Till now dependent on Chhattisgarh, Bihar and Madhya Pradesh for its annual requirement …

Drought over, it’s deluge in Mysore

Officials had prepared to tackle drought, but nature had other plans For a district that was prepared to face the drought less than a month ago, this sure is a strange situation with officers running around to fix compensation amount for houses that collapsed owing to heavy rain. In a …

CM lays foundation for Vijayawada-Ranchi corridor

Berhamupur: Chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday laid the foundation-stone for the proposed anti-Maoist Vijayawada-Ranchi corridor at Aska in Ganjam district. The corridor would go a long way in solving certain basic problems affecting not only some regions but the entire state, he said during his one-day visit to the …

Predicting droughts, floods is easy now

The Indian Space Research Organisation’s workhorse rocket, Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18), triumphed once again when it successfully put four satellites in orbit this morning. The satellites are: Megha-Tropiques, an Indo-French satellite to study weather and climate in the tropical region of the world; SRMSat, built by students of SRM …

Farmers blame drought for 90% crop loss

MALKANGIRI: With over 90 per cent of standing crops in 40 gram panchayats in Kalimela and Podia blocks damaged, farmers, pani panchayat members and locals recently laid siege to Potteru Irrigation Division Executive Engineer’s office demanding that the region be declared ‘drought-hit’. Besides deficit in rainfall, the breaches in the …

PSLV-C18 to put four satellites in orbit

It will be launched from Sriharikota on October 12; two satellites built by students Preparations are on for the lift-off of the Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV-C18) from the spaceport at Sriharikota at 11 a.m. on October 12. Global tropical weather The rocket will put four satellites in the orbit: …

Green energy takes toll on green cover

A forest generated by residents in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district is being destroyed to set up windmills. For two decades people from eight villages in Kalpavalli region in Andhra Pradesh's Anantapur district laboured hard to turn a vast expanse of wasteland into a forest. But the effort seems to have …

BJP wing demands drought tag to 9 more districts

BHUBANESWAR: The BJP Krushak Morcha on Tuesday sought the intervention of Governor MC Bhandare for inclusion of nine more districts in the list of drought-hit. A delegation led by State Krushak Morcha president Maheswar Sahu called on the Governor and submitted a 11-point charter of demands. The leaders told the …

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