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 …
Noted environmentalist Sunderlal Bahuguna's fast, undertaken to highlight the dangers of the Tehri dam project, has lasted for more than 40 days. This is the fourth fast by the 72-year-old Chipko movement leader. The last time when the environmentalist embarked upon a 72-day fast, the then prime minister H D …
The weather is a complex system and a number of factors influence it. Chief among them are the rotation of the planet which helps give direction to the winds. This disturbance in the atmosphere takes the form of a giant heat exchange system with hot air moving from the tropics …
In the 1920s, Sir Gilbert Walker made the seminal connection between barometer readings of air pressure at sea level at stations on the eastern and western sides of the Pacific Ocean (Tahiti and Darwin, Australia). He observed that when pressure rises in the east, it usually falls in the west, …
Several families have been affected by the release of water from the Indian side into the Jogbuda river in Nepal. In this regard, local residents of Dodhara submitted a memorandum to the prime minister of Nepal and called for immediate relief measures. According to estimates, nearly 50 ha of land …
At least 20,000 people were rendered homeless when heavy flooding devastated towns and cities in southern Brazil. Civil defence officials said that the situation was worst in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, where the Uruguay river broke its banks and submerged the homes of about 15,000 people. "The …
constructive dialogue and objective assessments have always been a casualty in the conflicts and controversies that have surrounded large dams. Such projects have nevertheless played a major role in development efforts and in meeting a variety of ends like electricity generation. They have also been the key players in government-sponsored …
Vanishing forest cover in Nepal may not be a cause of Bangladesh floods. A study conducted by the University of Berne, the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation and the United Nations University suggests that floods in Ganga and Brahamputra rivers have more to do with the weather patterns in …
Nearly 140 people were killed and over 20,000 injured due to floods in southern China this year. According to Red Cross officials this year's floods were not as devastating as last year's. This year's floods have destroyed tens of thousands of homes in five provinces - Zhejiang, Fujian, Guang-dong, Guangxi …
At least 65 people have been killed in heavy rains followed by flash floods in different parts of Pakistan. According to reports, people living in the hill areas were taken by surprise as mountain floods suddenly rose to the level of at least 14 feet and washed away several houses …
A division bench of the Gujarat High Court has issued notices to the state government, the Gandhinagar district collector and the managing collector of the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Corporation seeking to show cause as to why a public interest litigation filed by the Jan Sangharsh Manch, a local organisation, in …
There were reports of epidemics among the victims of flood disaster in Bangladesh in mid-July as the death toll rose to 84. The health ministry's permanent epidemic monitoring centre in Dhaka said recently that at least eight of the 1,219 people hospitalised with diarrhoea had died. Reports said that the …
The Gujarat High Court, has directed the joint salt commissioner at Ahmedabad to constitute a committee to probe the spread of salinity in agriculture land, wells and ponds in the Halvad taluka, in the Surendranagar district. The salinity is feared to have been caused due to the mixing of flood …
