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 …
Heavy rains in Uganda on Sunday caused serious damage as homes were flooded. Many household items were destroyed and some residents were forced to seek shelter elsewhere as water filled their houses. They spent the better part of Monday draining water out their flooded houses and cleaning their homes in …
The increased occurrence of disastrous weather conditions has moved our country to intensify its actions in the fight against climate change. South Africa has developed an adaptation strategy that will allow our nation to plan and respond better to the intensified impacts of climate change. Climate change is wreaking havoc …
Hundreds of children remain separated from their parents two months after a powerful cyclone battered Mozambique leaving them in limbo and at risk of abuse or being trafficked into slavery, charities warned on Wednesday. Cyclone Idai struck central Mozambique on March 14, ripping apart homes, schools and health clinics, and …
Green bamboos illegally felled by a forest department allotted timber unit in Manjavadi Kanavai in Harur. The trees were felled by a timber merchant, who was allocated dried bamboo by the Forest Department Truck loads of green bamboos were illegally felled from the forest near Manjavadi Kanavai falling along the …
The damage data upto 2017 has been finalized in CWC duly confirmed by the states. State wise damage data and for the country as a whole for the period 1953 to 2017 has been included.
UNITED NATIONS, GENEVA: A Global Assessment Report (GAR), launched by the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) here on Wednesday, has warned of new and much larger threats due to extreme climate changes to economies, in particular the Asia Pacific which accounts for 40% of the global economic …
The present study outlines major concerns and potential environmental consequences of the proposed Pancheshwar high dam in Uttarakhand (Central Himalaya), India. We evaluate the risks associated with the project in the light of environmental impact observed for the Tehri project in the region and the geological understanding developed over the …
Bengaluru: Karnataka has been witnessing a drastic change in rainfall pattern and distribution over the past two decades, resulting in frequent drought, floods and untimely rain. According to a study by the Karnataka State Natural Disaster Monitoring Centre (KSNDMC), north Karnataka and coastal areas have been g a declining trend …
Cities today face an unprecedented risk of natural hazards compounded by serious governance challenges. How can cities ensure that in building resilience, they address the needs of those most at risk of being excluded? How can they develop strategies that simultaneously foster resilient infrastructure and social inclusion? This note focuses …
World Bank and KfW likely to give major chunk of funds The city is set to get Rs. 4,500 crore for development of stormwater drains and large underground drains as funding from multilateral funding agencies. Work on development of stormwater drains in the Kovalam basin — in the southern part …
Order of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Nagar Panchayat Moonak & Other Vs The State of Punjab & Others dated 29/04/2019 regarding mitigation of the flood problem for the entire Ghaggar basin. Taking note of the problem of flood experienced by agriculturalists from 25 villages due …
Flooding in eastern Canada forced the evacuation of 1,200 people while more than 600 troops have been deployed in response, authorities said Sunday. Warming weather over the Easter weekend has brought spring floods due to heavy rains and snowmelt from Ontario to southern Quebec and New Brunswick. A man was …
Hawaii’s Waikiki Beach - celebrated around the world for its both it eye-grabbing beauty and decades-old surf culture - could be under water in a matter of years as as result of rising sea levels triggered by climate change, politicians have warned. In the latest alert about the threat to …
A senior official in the PMO Tuesday described the 2018 Kerala floods as "rarest of the rare" events and said India has been experiencing weather and climate related loss and damage. Speaking at a workshop organised by the environment ministry on National Consultation on Loss and Damage, P K Mishra, …
In order to mitigate the adverse impact of ‘climate change’ such as floods, cyclones wildfires etc which continue to disrupt life on an almost regular basis, green solution is the only way to over come the problem, said Vice President (VP) M Venkaiah Naidu on Monday. Naidu was speaking in …
Iran evacuated residents from inundated areas of the southwestern city of Ahvaz on Wednesday as the nationwide death toll from the worst flooding in 70 years reached 77, state media reported. The state news agency IRNA said more than 200 villages were also evacuated in the oil-rich southwestern province of …
Mozambique's first disaster was a cyclone. The second has been cholera. Now hunger could be the third. The raging floodwaters that made a large part of central Mozambique a vast inland sea are draining, laying bare a severe lack of food for the months ahead. Cyclone Idai swept in from …
Japan’s weather bureau on Wednesday said the El Nino weather pattern appeared to be continuing, with an 80 percent chance it would stretch into the northern hemisphere summer. El Nino is a warming of ocean surface temperatures in the eastern and central Pacific that typically happens every few years, sometimes …
Torrential rains doused Rio de Janeiro on Tuesday, killing at least six people and sowing chaos in Brazil’s second largest city, which declared a state of emergency after a storm that the mayor described as “absolutely abnormal.” A woman and her 7-year-old granddaughter were buried in a mudslide as they …
Iranian authorities on Monday evacuated patients from a hospital threatened by floodwaters in the southwestern city of Ahvaz, the semi-official news agency ISNA reported. Iran has been hit by several weeks of unprecedented flooding across most of the usually arid country that has killed 70 people, according to the emergency …
