The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
bird flu in russia: Russia's emergencies ministry declared on July 21, 2005, that the country's first case of bird flu, the strains of which can infect humans and be fatal, had been detected in a village in Siberia's Novosibirsk region. "Numerous birds have died...and an investigation showed the presence of …
gujarat has faced damages worth Rs 8,000 crore in the recent flash floods, according to a preliminary assessment; the figure is expected to rise further as more reports come in. Continuous heavy rains lashed the state in the last week of June 2005. The state government conveniently blamed nature, getting …
The main objective of this study in Kaziranga National Park (Assam) was two fold: 1) Review of protection strategies and suggestion to enhance their effectiveness and 2) Development of a comprehensive capacity building plan for frontline staff.
India being mainly an agricultural country the economy and further its growth purely depends on the vagaries of the weather and in particular the extreme weather events. The information on extreme weather events lie scattered in the scientific and technical papers and in the research work of many authors and …
The authors in this paper present a factual and a brief review of the extreme weather events that occurred in India during the last 100 years (1991-2004). The socio-economic impacts of the extreme weather events such as floods, droughts, cyclones, hail storm, thunderstorm, heat and cold waves have been increasing …
the North Eastern Frontier Railways (nefr) and the Assam government have locked horns over the construction of the Bogibeel rail-cum-road bridge on the Brahmaputra, 17 kilometres (km) downstream Dibrugarh. The government has refused to issue a no-objection certificate (noc) for constructing the bridge unless nefr agrees to bear the maintenance …
The main objective of this study can be asserted as to assess the probable impacts, which are likely to be happened due to the operation of proposed Tipaimukh Hydro Electric Dam (Multipurpose) Project of India by storing, regulating, withdrawal or diversion of the Barak River flow on the northeast region …
On January 30, 2005, while the country’s attention was fixed on the coming elections to the state’s legislature, a light rainfall in Sitamarhi district, Bihar, led to large tracts being flooded. This is the region where roads were closed for about 90 days during the monsoon. The state is the …
• Though the river originates in India and flows east, ending its journey in Bangladesh, the Ganga basin is spread over 1,093,400 sq km, picking up water from 4 countries • The large part of the water is contributed from north by perennial sources in the Himalaya. The catchment on …
Bells jingled, colourful carnivals spread cheer; Asia was filled with festivity, as the people celebrated the Nativity of Jesus Christ. The festival of joy had just begun. But death was just hours away. When the most powerful earthquake in more than 40 years struck deep under the Indian Ocean, the …
it's an annual pattern in Bangladesh. 10,117 hectares of land are washed away each year in devastating floods (Disaster Management Bureau report, 2003). The Jamuna erodes vast tracts along its course; the pattern of erosion along the banks of the Padma, Meghna and Teesta are equally destructive. If such points …
This video explains measures Japan took to prevent natural disasters. The video discusses barriers, embankments, dams, early warning systems, satellites, standard building codes, etc. Education plays an important role in disaster reduction in the future. Initiatives like community walks and children contests are shown. The video ends by showing examples …
Seventy-year old Kashem Ali sleeps on the roadside. There is a deathly silence all around, occasionally broken by shrill cries of people even as vultures and crows hover overhead to feast on bodies and animal carcasses strewn all over. A few metres away, 50-year old Raijuddin Shaeikh sobs inconsolably. He …
function map() { var popurl="image/20040915/8-map.jpg" winpops=window.open(popurl,"","width=400,height=425,scrollbars=yes") } devastating floods in Bangladesh claimed at least 800 human lives and seriously affected 35 million people in 39 out of the country's 64 districts last month, stumping experts and politicians: while the timing and magnitude caught the former completely off-guard, the government's initial …
a threat of severe chemical contamination hovers over Gujarat, which is suffering a major flood this year. Lack of industrial planning and infrastructure is blamed for the mix of dangerous chemicals with water in many parts of the state. The government has also been charged with inadequate preparedness. "The state …
the fury of floods reached Assam's power centre when Guwahati's prominent markets got flooded and experts noticed a crack in the city's only crossover bridge over Brahmaputra river. The breach was repaired in record time. But the crisis in the rest of the state hasn't been assuaged to the same …
Last fortnight, I wrote of an impending drought. 15 days on, I stand corrected. Now devastating floods are drowning parts of the recently parched country. So much so that Gujarat chief minister Narendra Modi, who last fortnight sought Rs 2,500 crore as drought relief, has now asked the Centre for …
At least 35 persons have been killed and millions stranded in floods sweeping Bangladesh and Nepal. Torrential rains threatened the closure of Sylhet airport and snapped rail and road links in north and northeastern parts of Bangladesh. The water level of Surma river in Sylhet and Sunamganj has exceeded the …
With the monsoon yet to run its course, north Bengal, where the rivers are already in spate, lives in fear. THE recent floods in north Bengal, which affected over one lakh people and rendered more than 70,000 homeless, might just be a warning. Incessant rain since the first week of …
