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 …
Bringing back grim memories of the past, an agrarian tragedy threatens to engulf Andhra Pradesh as result of the failure of the monsoon, triggering suicides by farmers. With the authorities grappling with severe drought conditions prevalent in almost four-fifths of the state
Lawyers for New York City are trying to convince a jury in a federal trial that Exxon Mobil knew that an additive that it used in gasoline would contaminate groundwater. The trial, which began on Tuesday before Judge Shira A. Scheindlin of United States District Court in Manhattan, is one …
Ranchi, Aug. 6: The state will seek a Rs 391-crore relief package from the Centre to battle drought. Chief secretary A.K. Basu today left for New Delhi with a proposal for the Union agriculture ministry. Adviser to the governor G. Krishnan, who holds charge of the agriculture department, told The …
The Uttar Pradesh Government has sought a special package from Union Government of Rs 7789 crore to fight drought, an official spokesman said here on Thursday. The State Agriculture Minister Chaudhry Laxmi Narain met the Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in New Delhi and requested him to release the relief …
LUCKNOW: Even as political parties continued to point fingers and accuse one another of not doing enough for the drought-hit farmers, a petty farmer committed suicide in Lalitpur district of Bundelkhand after his crop failed because of virtually no rainfall. This is the first known case of drought-related suicide since …
SAMBALPUR: Is Sambalpur heading for a drought? Well, if it does not rain for another week the farmers fears might just turn out to be true. While delayed monsoon has led to cultivation on only about 60 per cent land till now, those who dared to go ahead with cultivation …
Shokha Ram Das (65) stares at his five bigha land in Dumdumi village under Chharra gram panchayat, nearly 12 km south of Purulia town, awaiting the rains. With just 2 per cent cultivation till date, nearly 280,000 hectares of agricultural land in the district is lying vacant, facing a near …
An action plan have been prepared by the Hailakandi district administration to tackle the drought-like situation prevailing in the district, an official press release said. It may be mentioned that almost all the 322 villages in Hailakandi district including 25,000 farmer families have been badly hit by the ongoing drought-like …
While the agricultural scientists are urging for speedy completion of seedling transplantation to save the agricultural sector in this drought-like situation, the Agriculture Department expects that by the end of August, transplantation activities would be able to cover about 95 per cent of the winter paddy crop area if the …
State Minister for Urban Development Dinesh Prasad Gowala recently urged the farmers of Cachar district to seek assistance from the Agriculture and Irrigation departments in view of the prevailing drought-like situation. At a district-level meeting at Silchar, Gowala to said that the Agriculture and Irrigation departments should jointly face the …
South Korea, Asia's fourth largest economy, has pledged to set one of three targets for carbon emissions by 2020, voluntarily joining Kyoto signatories in moving toward a firm commitment to roll back climate change. The government said on Tuesday it would choose a 2020 gas emission target this year from …
The prolonged dry spell and insufficient rainfall has affected agriculture crops over 3,63,120 hectare in the State and the crop loss was more than 50 per cent in 2,65,103 hectare area. Giving the information in a suo moto statement made in Vidhan Sabha, the Revenue Minister Gulab Singh said that …
Andhra Pradesh is facing a drought-like situation this year. The state had been receiving good rainfall ever since YSR Reddy became Chief Minister for the first term in June 2004. In his second term now, the Chief Minister is now thinking of declaring a drought in case the state does …
There is a time bomb ticking under the world, but its leaders seem not to be aware of it. This bomb is different from any that war, terrorism and the movies have made us familiar with, because it cannot be defused at the last moment. This one has to be …
Threats of hazards are still not taken seriously in Pakistan to the extent of taking precautionary measures in an institutional form. The country has been facing socio-economic losses as hazards are converted into disasters. Earthquakes, floods, droughts, tsunamis and cyclones have occurred in different parts of the country in the …
Climate change in Africa is expected to lead to a higher occurrence of severe droughts in semi-arid and arid ecosystems. Understanding how animal populations react to such events is thus crucial for addressing future challenges for wildlife management and conservation. We explored how gender, age, mother's experience and family group …
The western Amazon is the most biologically rich part of the Amazon basin and is home to a great diversity of indigenous ethnic groups, including some of the world's last uncontacted peoples living in voluntary isolation. Unlike the eastern Brazilian Amazon, it is still a largely intact ecosystem. Underlying this …
