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 …
On the eve of a crucial ministerial session on climate change here, green NGOs from India today accused Indian negotiators of having an "attitude problem" as they ignored to project the Nature's fury during Uttarakhand floods and cyclone Phailin in their opening statement at the UN conference. They said that …
Concrete houses for fishermen, cyclone shelters and underground cabling for power supply are among the host of projects the state government on Wednesday placed before a central team on external assistance, which is here to assess Odisha's needs following devastation by Phailin and subsequent floods. The seven-member team headed by …
GENEVA: Sea levels this year posted a record high, making low-lying coastal populations ever more vulnerable to extreme weather like super-storm Haiyan, the UN said Wednesday. In an interim report on the planet's climate, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) also estimated that 2013 was on course to be one of …
This year is the seventh warmest since records began in 1850 with a trend to weather extremes and the impact of storms such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines aggravated by rising sea levels, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said on Wednesday. A build-up of manmade greenhouse gases in the …
The Philippines' tragedy that saw loss of over 10,000 lives by Typhoon Haiyan set the tone of United Nations' climate change talks, which began in Warsaw on Monday, amid hope that the devastation, caused by global warming, will move both developed and developing countries alike to find a lasting solution …
Nearly five months after devastating floods ravaged the hill state, Uttarakhand is yet to formulate a disaster management plan to meet any future calamity. According to the disaster management authority, as of now only 19 States in the country have a mandatory state disaster management plan (SDMP) — and Uttarakhand …
The strongest typhoon in the world this year and possibly the most powerful ever to hit land battered the central Philippines on Friday, forcing millions of people to flee to safer ground, cutting power lines and blowing apart houses. Haiyan, a category-5 super typhoon, bore down on the northern tip …
Nearly one in four people on earth live in the countries that border the Bay of Bengal. The region is strategically vital to Asia’s rising powers. Its low-lying littoral — including coastal regions of eastern India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and Sumatra — is home to over half …
Isro said that the launch will not be impacted due to a cyclone warning, which was given for the southern coast of Tamil Nadu A day prior to the historic moment of launching its Orbiter to Mars, the Indian Space Research Organisation (Isro) has undertaken the propellant filling operation of …
Once bitten twice shy. The Phailin onslaught has promoted the jittery state government to reassess the planning and design of the proposed houses to be built under the centrally-sponsored Rajiv Awas Yojana (RAY) for the urban poor in Bhubaneswar. Bhubaneswar Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner Sanjib Kumar Mishra has asked the …
Effective disaster planning, preparation and dissemination of early warning information led to a minimal death toll in the wake of the strongest cyclone to hit India in 14 years. In mid-October, Cyclone Phailin swept over the Bay of Bengal and across the eastern coast of India, causing hundreds of millions …
BERHAMPUR: People in Ganjam district are reeling from severe scarcity of water following disruption of water supply in both rural and urban areas, including Berhampur. "We had only a few litres of filtered waters stored when our area got inundated last Saturday," said B P Choudhury of Aska town, about …
30 October 2013 31% of global economic output forecast to face ‘high’ or ‘extreme’ climate change risks by 2025 – Maplecroft Risk Atlas The sixth annual release of Maplecroft’s Climate Change and Environmental Risk Atlas reveals that 31% of global economic output will be based in countries facing ‘high’ or …
Hyderabad: Ravaged by six days of rain last week, and by Cyclone Phailin a fortnight ago, Srikakulam faces another round of heavy rain. According to the Meteorological department, isolated heavy rain may occur over Srikakulam in the next 24 hours. The district continued to receive intense rain on Sunday: Ranasthalam …
Bhubaneswar : Exactly 14 years after the supercyclone stuck Orissa, the Orissa government said the devastation caused by the cyclone Phailin this month and the subsequent floods is higher in scale than what the 1999 supercyclone had caused, although the death toll was relatively negligible this time as compared to …
Rain and flash floods have pushed back development works in Uttarakhand by decades and the challenge at the moment is to build smarter projects without impacting the fragile environment of the hilly region, said World Bank's country director Onno Ruhl. "In Uttarakhand, the challenge is to build smarter, so that …
Monsoon and cyclones : Role of climate change - A presentation by M.R.Ramesh Kumar at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.
A day after Cyclone Phailin lashed the Odisha coast, full-throated praise for the Naveen Patnaik government on minimising loss of human life through mass evacuation morphed into angry protests by the survivors who lost pretty much everything except their lives to the disaster. The 1999 super-cyclone killed more than 10,000 …
The damages from climatic extremes: Does disaster specific and generic adaptation measures matter? - A presentation by Chandra Sekhar Bahinipati & Unmesh Patnaik at the 4th National Research Conference on Climate Change, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, October 26-27, 2013.
The Phailin wound barely healed, Ganjam district on Thursday was threatened by yet another natural calamity, that of flood. Almost all rivers were in spate, triggered by four days of unprecedented rain, forcing the government to evacuate people to safer places. "Over one lakh people were marooned as floodwaters from …
