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 …
BHUBANESWAR: Persons with disabilities are more vulnerable to disaster impacts due to their physical condition. But often during disasters, they are either left out or don't get help in the cycle of disaster risk reduction and response at the community level, said Minister for Revenue and Disaster Management Surya Narayan …
The paper examines whether the mangrove forests in Kendrapada district of Orissa played any protective role during the severe cyclone that hit the state in October 1999. Using data on human casualties and damages suffered by the houses as dependent variables, and different meteorological, geophysical and socio-economic factors as independent …
This paper describes Bangladesh's contemporary forest management policies and programs aimed at biodiversity conservation and climate change adaptation and mitigation.
The Inter-governmental Meeting to finalise the text of the draft SAARC Agreement on Rapid Response to Natural Disasters concluded in Male last Thursday with a broad agreement on the issue that needed to be addressed. According to the global database on disasters, over the past forty years, South Asia faced …
There are many sources of water in the southwestern part of the country but the people of the Aila-hit areas are facing acute drinking water crises. Most of the rivers, canals, ponds and wetlands in the coastal areas particularly in Mongla and Morelganj upazilas in Bagerhat, Dacope and Koira upazilas …
Although two years have passed since the devastating cyclone Aila hit in the coastal regions, approximately 54,530 people from 10,906 households continue to love in makeshift huts on the embankment damaged by the cyclone, and outside the ring embankment. Cyclone Aila hit the coastal area May 25, 2009. Over two …
A series of tornadoes struck central Oklahoma on Tuesday, wiping out homes and businesses and killing at least five people. Officials said the number could rise as search and rescue teams started to fan out across a state already battered by storms over the weekend. A half-mile-wide tornado moving towards …
The sun shone for the first time in days on this devastated city on Tuesday, illuminating the full extent of the damage as rescue workers performed the grim task of searching for survivors and victims in buildings leveled by the United States
A monster tornado killed at least 116 people in Joplin, Missouri when it tore through the heart of the small city, ripping the roof off a hospital and destroying thousands of homes and businesses. Weather officials said the tornado that hit the city of 50,000 at dinner time on Sunday …
A tornado steamrolled over Joplin, Mo., on Sunday night, knocking out a hospital and causing many deaths across the city, according to various reports. Joplin, which the reports said was in the direct path of the tornado, was left isolated and in the dark after the destruction, with telephone connections …
A consortium of international agencies is initiating a Tk 1,000 million project to provide support for food security and livelihoods of 211,265 people severely affected by Cyclone Aila over the last two years, of which sixty percent are women, for assisting in their rehabilitation process. The agencies include four members …
MUMBAI: The Arabian Sea's average temperature has gone up by two to five degrees Celsius over the last four decades, which is not good news for the climate that you experience. It has also resulted in many cyclones originating from the Arabian Sea during the same time. The sea's temperature, …
India is launching a major experiment to unravel meteorological mysteries that cause violent cyclones in the Bay of Bengal. The Forecast Demonstration Experiment aims to study factors that contribute to the formation of cyclones that strike the country
AHMEDABAD: The National Cyclone Risk Mitigation project of the central government which will be launched in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, will cover Gujarat in the second phase. This was announced by M Shashidhar Reddy, vice-chairman of National Disaster Management Authority. The Government of India has taken a decision to implement …
On February 26, as night fell on the tranquil Gahirmatha beach in Odisha, thousands of Olive Ridley turtles crawled in. Using their rear flippers, they dug pits in the soft beach sand and started laying eggs, more than 100 at a time. Then they skilfully covered the nests with sand …
INDIA is constructing six nuclear power plants—two each at Kudankulam in Tamil Nadu, Kakrapar in Gujarat, and Rawatbhata in Rajasthan. Together, they will generate 4,800 MWe of power, states the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board’s website. This is a big leap towards enhancing the country’s nuclear stature. But is the country …
The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has released its annual "Statement on the Status of the Global Climate," highlighting that global surface temperatures reached record values and that 2010 represented the closure of the warmest decade on record. The Statement describes global temperature in 2010, major large-scale influences on the global …
A Doppler Weather Radar (DWR), the first in Maharashtra, has been installed here for accurate predictions of monsoons, cyclones and other weather-related phenomena. The DWR was installed on Sunday near the Babasaheb Ambedkar International airport in the city. It is the third such radar in the country. The state-of-the-art S-Band …
Bhubaneswar: Most parts of the northern and southern Odisha are likely to experience widespread rainfall during the next 48 hours under the influence of a cyclonic ring Bay of Bengal, Met office sources said on Sunday. Most parts of Odisha witnessed widespread rains for the last two days. Meanwhile, rainfall …
