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 …
The weather department has warned of extensive damage in the coastal areas of Orissa and Andhra Pradesh, including possible disruption of power and communication lines, due to the approaching “severe cyclonic storm”, named ‘Hudhud’, scheduled to hit eastern coast on October 12. Wind speeds of up to 150 km per …
BHUBANESWAR India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - India began stocking shelters with rations, deploying disaster response forces and planning mass evacuations as an increasingly powerful cyclone hurtled towards its southeast coast on Thursday. Cyclone Hudhud is moving in from the Bay of Bengal and is expected to develop into a very …
VISAKHAPATNAM: The low pressure system in Bay of Bengal, which appeared as a deep depression on Tuesday, is expected to surface as a cyclonic storm, Hudhud, on Wednesday (October 8). The India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Tuesday predicted that the system would cross Andaman and Nicobar islands by Wednesday forenoon …
The government asks people to be prepared Sixteen districts in Odisha have been put on high alert, by the Odisha government, in view of the formation of a depression over the north Andaman Sea, which could well turn into a cyclonic storm in the next 72 hours. Chief Minister Naveen …
PORT BLAIR/BHUBANESWAR India (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - A cyclone heading for India's southeast coast gathered strength on Wednesday, uprooting trees, triggering landslides and snapping power and phone links as it crossed the remote Andaman and Nicobar islands, government officials said. Cyclone Hudhud is moving in from the Bay of Bengal …
VISAKHAPATNAM: A cyclonic storm is brewing in the Bay of Bengal and is expected to hit the Odisha coast by October 12, Met officials said. The cyclone is likely to be named Hudhud, after an Afro-Eurasian bird, by Oman, whose turn it is to name the next cyclone. According to …
From typhoon Haiyan to cyclone Phailin, various natural disasters forced almost 22 million people out of their homes across the world in 2013. Find out which countries and regions witnessed maximum displacement due to these events and which disasters recorded the highest displacement levels.
IDMC’s latest Global Estimates report shows that 22 million people were displaced in 2013 by disasters brought on by natural hazard events. As in previous years, the worst affected region is Asia, where 19 million people, or 87.1 per cent of the global total, were displaced during the year. Although …
Typhoon Kalmaegi has swept past Hong Kong, closing schools and disrupting flights as strong winds pounded the territory. More than 500 flights were delayed as the storm passed by on its way to China's Hainan Island. Morning trading was cancelled on the Hong Kong stock exchange, while schools and businesses …
Small island developing states in Asia-Pacific are at a development crossroads. Some have achieved middle-income status. The classification is based on several indicators, one being economic. Some are also ranked as medium human development, a measure of achievement in key areas such as health, income and standard of living. But …
An area of low pressure located east of the Caribbean Sea has a 50 percent chance of becoming a tropical depression or storm in the next 48 hours, U.S. forecasters said on Thursday. "For the five-day (forecast) that's raised up to a 70 percent probability," U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) …
The Madras High Court has ordered notice to Environment and Forest secretaries of the Union and Tamil Nadu governments based on the Advocate Commissioner's report which said more than 60 buildings in Kanyakumari district were constructed violating the Coastal Regulation Zone (CRZ) notification. Besides these Secretaries, the court also ordered …
AHMEDABAD: Gujarat high court on Monday asked the forest department not to allow the removal of sand dunes from the seashore in southern Kutch after a PIL alleged that the Adani Port and Special Economic Zone (APSEZ) had flattened the area near a small hamlet, Tunda Vandh. On July 24, …
Police and emergency crews in the city of Revere, Massachusetts, outside Boston scrambled to clean up after a rare tornado touched down on Monday, downing power lines, damaging homes and overturning at least one car. The National Weather Service confirmed that a tornado touched down during a storm that brought …
A tropical wave located about 550 miles (885 km) southwest of the Cape Verde Islands, off the west coast of Africa, has a medium, or 30 percent chance, of becoming a tropical cyclone during the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center (NHC) said on Monday in its latest …
The government has constructed a total of 100 cyclone centres in the country’s coastal districts in fiscal 2013-14, aiming to save the lives and property of coastal people from the extreme climate events like cyclone and storm surge. The cyclone shelters were set up with allowing special facilities for the …
Weather- and climate-related disasters have caused $2.4 trillion in economic losses and nearly 2 million deaths globally since 1971 according to a new report. While the losses are staggering, the report also shows that we have learned from past disasters, lessons the world will need as development continues in hazardous …
A typhoon killed at least 10 people as it churned across the Philippines and hit the capital, prompting the evacuation of almost more than 370,000 people and shutting financial markets, offices and schools, rescue officials said on Wednesday. The eye of Typhoon Rammasun, the strongest storm to hit the country …
At least one tornado touched down in an upstate New York town during a violent spate of weather that killed five people on the East Coast, officials said on Wednesday. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo toured the hard-hit town of Smithfield, outside Syracuse, where four people were killed and at …
A large number of people in the coastal district remain highly vulnerable to natural disasters like cyclones and tidal surges as 157 cyclone shelters here can accommodate only three lakh people among the 25 lakh inhabitants of the area. Of the nine upazilas in the district, Digholia, Phultala, Rupsha and …
