At least 242 million students in 85 countries had their schooling disrupted by extreme climate events in 2024, including heatwaves, tropical cyclones, storms, floods, and droughts, exacerbating an existing learning crisis, according to a new UNICEF analysis released today. Heatwaves were the predominant climate hazard shuttering schools last year, with …
Tornadoes spun through parts of northern Texas and southern Oklahoma on Tuesday, damaging buildings and injuring at least one person, officials said. The National Weather Service said several twisters were reported in the region and at least one person was injured at a Ramada hotel in Lee County, Texas when …
Global tropical cyclone climate has been investigated with indicators of frequency, intensity and activity. However, a full understanding of global warming’s influence on tropical cyclone climate remains elusive because of the incomplete nature of these indicators. Here we form a complete three-dimensional variability space of tropical cyclone climate where the …
‘Substantial’ event will be the first in five years, and is expected to bring widespread drought and warmer temperatures Australia will be hit by a “substantial” El Niño event for the first time in five years, heightening the chances of widespread drought and warmer temperatures, the Bureau of Meteorology has …
A tornado killed one person in a rural part of north Texas on Saturday and destroyed at least two houses, a local emergency official said, just days after a series of twisters tore through several Great Plains states. The twister touched down about 5 miles (8 km) south of the …
A series of tornadoes touched down southwest of Oklahoma City on Wednesday, including a major one that hit about 20 miles from the state's capital city, officials and local TV reports said. There have been no immediate reports of injuries but some structures were damaged, officials said. A large tornado …
A town in northern Germany has been badly damaged by a tornado that was triggered by violent storms which have left at least one person dead. Witnesses in Buetzow, near Rostock, said cars were hurled 70m (230ft) and roof tiles blown off buildings, including the local hospital. High winds, heavy …
Minister of State for Ministry of Science and Technology and Ministry of Earth Sciences Shri Y. S. Chowdary informed Rajya Sabha that towards possible development of long-term solution solution, data collection and documentation of shore erosion has been carried out at different stretches in the states of Tamil Nadu (Poovar …
More than 100,000 people in Vanuatu have no clean drinking water, a month after a monster cyclone struck the tiny Pacific nation, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) said on Wednesday. Two thirds of the archipelago's water and sanitation infrastructure has been damaged or destroyed and most wells are contaminated, …
At least 42 people were killed, more than 100 injured and crops damaged when a cyclonic storm hit the north-eastern border districts of Bihar late on Tuesday night. “It was a strong storm with a wind speed of more than 150 kmph. Purnia is the worst-affected district, with the most …
Taking a significant step that could help it counter Opposition criticism that it is insensitive to farmers, the government has hiked compensation amounts for crop loss due to natural disasters and relaxed eligibility norms for claiming relief. Farmers can now avail of financial assistance if at least 33 per cent …
Cyclone Pam was one of the worst disasters to hit the small Pacific island nation of Vanuatu in recent memory. Thousands of buildings and trees were flattened in the March storm, leaving 75,000 people without homes and at least 15 dead. Vanuatu is a poor nation, ranking as one of …
At least 24 people were killed and hundreds of others injured while houses, cropland and institutions damaged during Saturday’s nor’wester across the country. An unidentified 60-year-old man, hit by a drum that had fallen from a building during the storm at Khejurbagh of south Keraniganj, succumbed to his injuries yesterday …
YANGON, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Three people were killed and five others injured as tornado hit two villages in Phakant, Myanmar's northernmost Kachin state, local media reported Monday. The tornado struck the villages and surrounding areas of Phakant on Sunday morning, damaging some buildings and a school, said the 7-Day …
Bangladesh will host a three-day regional consultation of the “Nansen Initiative” on climate change, disasters, and human mobility in South Asia and the Indian Ocean region, beginning tomorrow in Khulna. Representatives from 16 countries of the region, experts from all over the world, and a host of international organisations, NGOs, …
This paper presents the application of a new methodology for coastal multi-hazard assessment & management under a changing global climate on the state of Karnataka, India. The recently published methodology termed the Coastal Hazard Wheel (CHW) is designed for local, regional and national hazard screening in areas with limited data …
DHAKA : The World Bank (WB) will construct at least 330 new cyclone shelters in the cyclone prone areas of Bangladesh by 2017, reports BSS. Official sources said the WB under its Emergency 2007 Cyclone Recovery and Restoration Project (ECRRP) has already constructed 136 multipurpose disaster shelters that double up …
Around 90 percent of the beneficiaries of a World Bank project for victims of cycles Sidr and Aila now have annual income upwards of Tk 60,000 on average, according to a household survey of 2014. Around 86 percent of the people covered by the Emergency 2007 Cyclone Recovery and Restoration …
Around the same time as Cyclone Pam flattened the tiny Pacific island nation of Vanuatu early this month, untimely rains and hailstorms lashed Maharashtra in India destroying at least 5.5 million hectares of winter crops. That was a big jolt to the nation still recovering from the worst calamity of …
Less than two weeks after Cyclone Pam tore through the Pacific island nation of Vanuatu, 110,000 people have no safe drinking water and some 75,000 urgently need shelter, the United Nations said on Tuesday as it launched an appeal for $29.9 million. The appeal aims to help an estimated 166,000 …
Three days after making landfall, Cyclone Nathan continued to threaten Australian coastal communities, with 400 residents of a remote northern island on Monday ordered to evacuate after meteorologists warned the storm was intensifying. It is the second time since late February that people living in Goulburn Island off Australia's Northern …
