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 …
SEVERAL countries in the Southern Hemisphere experienced their worst floods in decades in the past two months. While intense rainfall for over a month kept parts of Australia inundated for weeks, severe floods and landslides killed hundreds of people in Brazil and Sri Lanka, and affected more than one million. …
The maritime trade of Orissa with transoceanic countries is evident from the early historical period onwards. It has been observed that new ports were set up after the decline of old ports in the nearby vicinity; however, information on the decline of ancient ports is very sparse. The archival and …
PURI: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, in a day-long tour of Brahmagiri Assembly constituency, inaugurated two bridges and laid a foundation stone for four multipurpose cyclone shelter centres today. In a public meeting at Krushnaprasad, he lauded the local legislator Sanjay Das Burma for his contribution towards development of the constituency. …
Representatives of development partner countries and organisations on Wednesday said Bangladesh was the worst affected by climate change and it needed a strong leadership in facing climate change and its mitigation. Climate changes are evident in Bangladesh and there is no controversy that such changes have taken place, they said …
Cyclone Yasi pushes global sugar prices to record highs. Global sugar prices have shot up to historic highs after Cyclone Yasi hit the Queensland coast in Australia. On February 2, white (refined) sugar prices for March 2011 delivery touched a record high of $845 per tonne. However, Indian sugar mills …
Sugarcane plantations in the north of Australia ’s Queensland state may lose 50% of production potential after Tropical Cyclone Yasi cut through an area accounting for a third of output, according to a growers group. Farmers will begin assessing damage to the nation’s sugar crop today, Brisbane-based Canegrowers said today …
Goa will benefit from the contract inked between the Government of Indian and World Bank under which Cyclone Warning Systems would be installed in coastal states. Sources stated the first phase for this project is to the tune of $255 million which will cover the cyclone prone states of Andhra …
NEW DELHI: More relief is on the way for the over one million people living in the coastal areas of Andhra Pradesh and Orissa, who face the wrath of cyclones year after year. India and World Bank on Friday signed an agreement through which the latter will provide a credit …
THE World Bank on Friday pledged $1.72 billion in loans to India, mainly for building 24,000 km of roads in rural areas. "It is the largest roads project to be approved by the bank," World Bank President Robert Zoellick said after a meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee in Delhi. …
Jan. 13: The Union Cabinet has recently approved the World Bank-assisted National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP) at a total cost of `1,497 crores. This is the first mitigation project being implemented by the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and is likely to be undertaken next month. The project is …
Australia's third-largest city began cleaning up stinking mud and debris in flood-hit areas on Friday, but whole suburbs remained submerged, smaller towns braced for more inundations and forecasters pointed to a threat of cyclones. Military aircraft and trucks fanned out across Queensland state, ferrying food and clothing over an area …
The Gulf coastal ecosystems in Florida are foci of the highest species richness of imperiled shoreline dependent birds in the USA. However environmental processes that affect their macroecological patterns, like occupancy and abundance, are not well unraveled. In Florida the Snowy Plover (Charadrius alexandrinus nivosus) is resident along northern and …
New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: A Centrally sponsored cyclone risk mitigation scheme would be implemented in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh to minimise the vulnerability to cyclones and make people and infrastructure disaster resilient. The first phase of the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP), which would be implemented at an estimated cost of …
The Government on Thursday approved a Rs 1,496.71 crore cyclone risk mitigation scheme to be implemented in Andhra Pradesh and Odisha to minimise the vulnerability to cyclones and make people and infrastructure disaster resilient. The Cabinet cleared the first phase of the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project which is expected …
The Cabinet on JThursday approved phase I of the National Cyclone Risk Mitigation Project (NCRMP), which would be implemented in Andhra Pradesh and Orissa to minimise the vulnerability of coastal states to cyclones and make people and infrastructure disaster resilient. The scheme, costing `1,496.71 crores, is expected to benefit 5.60 …
Md Nadiruzzaman argues that we need to learn more from past experience of the impact of natural hazards if we are to deal effectively with these events in the future.
BERHAMPUR: Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Saturday accepted that farmers had suffered immense crop loss due to recent cyclonic rains. Mr Patnaik on Saturday made field visit to affected areas of Ganjam, Gajapati, Subarnapur and Bolangir districts to get first hand information about crop loss. Everywhere farmers came out with …
