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 …
Army, Navy, Coast Guard alerted; 20 more NDRF teams sought The Andhra Pradesh administration is on high alert as `Lehar’ entered the Bay of Bengal started its movement towards the State’s coastline as a very severe cyclonic storm. The India Meteorological Department said Lehar, after crossing Port Blair, lay centred …
The state government on Monday put district authorities on alert, especially those of 10 southern and coastal districts, as the severe cyclonic storm, Lehar, is expected to make a landfall between Kalingapatnam and Machhlipatnam of Andhra Pradesh around noon of November 28. The government's warning came after India Meteorological Department …
60 % of the damaged crop is only in West Godavari district. About 1,68,998 hectares of paddy crop, of which over 60 per cent is only in West Godavari district, has been damaged under the impact of heavy rains caused by cyclone Helen, preliminary estimates of the state disaster management …
It is expected to make landfall between Kalingapatnam and Masula on Nov. 28. Even as the enumeration of extensive crop loss caused by the tropical cyclonic storm Helen is yet to commence, the coastal Andhra region is faced with another “very severe cyclonic storm’’ that is likely to cross the …
It's official. Another very severe cyclonic storm like Phailin is set to hit the Andhra coast later this week. Indian Meteological Department (IMD) on Sunday named it as Lehar, suggested by India. Lehar is the fourth cyclonic storm in the Bay of Bengal this year after Mahasen, Phailin and Helen …
Vijayawada: Cyclone Helen, the second major storm to hit Andhra coast in four weeks since Phailin, made landfall on the coast south of Machilipatnam around 1.30pm on Friday, leaving an aftermath of death and devastation killing 10 people and damaging standing crop over thousands of acres in Krishna, West and …
The cyclone is likely to hit southern Andhra coast close to Machilipatnam in Krishna District this afternoon Andhra Pradesh administration is fully geared up to face the severe cyclonic storm Helen over west- central Bay of Bengal which is likely to hit southern Andhra coast close to Machilipatnam in Krishna …
Heavy loss feared in Krishna, Guntur and West Godavari districts Heavy to very heavy rain may lash three coastal districts – Guntur, Krishna and West Godavari – as tropical cyclonic storm, Helen, intensified into a severe cyclone on Thursday. The storm lay centred about 180 km east-southeast of Machilipatnam and …
With recurrent floods, storms and erratic rainfall adversely impacting farmers and agricultural productivity, the government will soon commence pilot programmes in Jharkhand, Orissa and Chhattisgarh for climate change mitigation through district-level contingency plans. An agriculture ministry official told FE that in the last three years 450 district-level contingency plans have …
Trees were uprooted disrupting traffic, communication and electricity towers were damaged as strong gales with speed reaching 100-110 kmph caused havoc in the coastal districts Cyclonic storm Helen Friday hit Andhra Pradesh coast near Machilipatnam, triggering heavy rains and strong gales, killing seven people and causing massive damage to the …
पिछले नौ साल में इस कॉन्फ्रेंस में वॉक आउट की घटना पहली बार हुई है। विकासशील देशों का कहना है कि ड्राफ्ट की बातें यूएनएफसीसीसी के प्रावधानों से मेल नहीं खातीं। इन देशों ने सीओपी 19 कॉन्फ्रेंस छोड़ देने तक की धमकी दी है। वहीं, अमेरिका, कनाडा, ऑस्ट्रेलिया और यूरोप …
Warsaw talks on the need to have an international mechanism to address loss and damage arising out of climate change hit a dead end on Wednesday with the Australian delegation blocking any discussion. The bloc of developing countries, G-77 and China, which has been pushing for an international mechanism to …
Current warnings are in effect for fishermen along the coasts of Andhra Pradesh, who are advised to return to shore Researchers have warned that tropical Cyclone 04B renamed as "Helen" has strengthened and is slowly nearing landfall in southeastern India. On November 20 at 1200 UTC/7 a.m. EST, Tropical Cyclone …
A 40-member NDRF team deployed to carry out rescue and relief operations Krishna district authorities alerted the people in the cyclone-prone 12 mandals where evacuation measures have already been put in place in the wake of the likely landfall of Cyclone Helen on Thursday near Kavali in Nellore district. A …
Yesterday’s cyclonic storm ‘HELEN’ over west central Bay of Bengal intensified into a severe cyclonic storm in the early morning of today, the 21st November 2013 and lay centred at 0830 hrs IST of today near latitude 15.80N and longitude 83.40E about 240 km east-southeast of Machillipatnam, 350 km east-northeast …
- At climate meet, India takes middle path on compensation for calamity damage THE STATE OF THE EARTH: THE PHILIPPINES A human skull, one of dozens found in a destroyed public cemetery, is displayed atop a tomb in Hernani town, central Philippines, on Monday, after the graves were swept away …
The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal would intensify into a cyclonic storm and cross the coast between Chennai and Ongole Thursday night, the Indian Meteorological Department said here on Wednesday. Cyclone 'Helen' would cross the south Andhra Pradesh coast near Kavali on the night of November 21, the …
A cyclone killed 18 people and made hundreds homeless as extreme rainfall flooded eastern parts of the Mediterranean island of Sardinia, Italian authorities said on Tuesday. The government declared a state of emergency after Cyclone Cleopatra dropped 450mm of rain in an hour and a half overnight, causing rivers to …
A dedicated institutional mechanism to address the adverse impacts of climate change such as extreme weather events like Typhoon Haiyan and Cyclone Phailin may well be within reach at the end of the ongoing global talks at Warsaw. After a weekend of intense negotiations, government representatives have prepared a draft …
WARSAW: World may be looking at India for its response to what had happened recently in Odisha and Uttarakhand due to natural disasters which were results of climatic extremes, but there was not a word on these two unfortunate incidents from Indian side, comprising official negotiators, here at the UN …
