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 …
Nellore, Dec. 7: District administration sounded high alert along the coast following forecast over the possibility of low pressure system crossing between Kavali and Bapatla. State government has deputed special officer Mr G. Anantharamu to monitor the situation. Officials are worried over the information that the storm is likely to …
VIJAYAWADA, Dec. 6: Krishna district farmers are concerned with another cyclonic storm formed over Bay of Bengal. Farmers have already suffered loss due to heavy rains caused by cyclone Laila and Jal during the last few months. Now, another storm is looming large over the Bay of Bengal in coastal …
Ecological diversity in Sunderban is at the threshold of decline. The fragile land here is being swallowed every day by gradual sea level rise, coastal erosion and tropical cyclones. Besides the global cause of sea level rise i.e. thermal expansion of sea water also responsible is the land degrading anthropogenic …
A report detailing the damage caused by the recent cyclonic rain in the State will be submitted to the Union government soon, Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has said.
In full flow:Following heavy rain, Palar river witnessed water flow from Thimmampet. AMBUR: The dry riverbed of Palar river witnessed water after nearly five years over a distance of 50 km from Thimmampet following heavy rain caused by cyclone Jal. The sight of water drew several excited onlookers on Monday. …
The cyclonic storm, Jal, heading towards Andhra Pradesh claimed five lives in different districts today, officials said. Of the five deaths, three were from Nellore district, officials in the Disaster Management Department said. However,the cyclonic storm, Jal, which was earlier declared as a "very severe cyclone" has, however, lost its …
The cyclonic storm, Jal, heading towards Andhra Pradesh, claimed five lives in different districts on Sunday, officials said. Of the five deaths, three were from Nellore district, officials in the Disaster Management Department told PTI. The cyclonic storm, Jal, which was earlier declared as a
Japan will provide Taka 113 crore as grant to setup a mobile saline water treatment plant for ensuring safe drinking water to four lakh people daily at 11 Aila affected upazilas in three south western costal districts Khulna, Satkhira and Bagherhat. Japan International Cooperation Service (JICS) will provide Taka 113 …
At least twenty persons were killed and another four persons went missing in the past 48 hours as torrential rains continued to lash Coastal Andhra. Visakhapatnam and East Godavari accounted for the most deaths ~ six and five respectively. The administration sounded an alert and turned further anxious as another …
SEIJOSA, Oct 7: A sleepy town, Seijosa in East Kameng district bordering Assam, was jolted awake by a high intensity cyclone accompanied by heavy rainfall and thunderstorm that left behind a trail of destruction in the entire subdivision. However, no human casualty has been reported so far. Official sources today …
SHWETA KAMAT Goa will now have a digital cyclone warning dissemination system (DCWDS), which will be operated by policemen at the police control room in Panjim. After a break of three years, the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) has decided to replace its old cyclone warning dissemination system (CWDS) which was …
This publication by Indian Meteorological Department, Pune contains studies with latest data on various aspects of important weather / climate systems viz. Monsoons, Cyclone, Drought, Floods and observational weather / climate mechanism in India. Normal climatic pattern and long term trends over India during last more than 100 years have …
Countries in the Asia-Pacific are more prone to natural disasters than those in other parts of the world says this first of its kind regional disaster report launched at 4th Asian Ministerial Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in South Korea. People in the Asia-Pacific region are four times more likely …
A study has been carried out by comparing the extreme wind speeds estimated based on NCEP/NCAR reanalysis data for 100 years return period using Fischer Tippet-1 (commonly known as Gumbel) and Weibull distributions for three locations (off Goa, Visakhapatnam and Machilipatnam) in the north Indian Ocean. The wind dataset for …
This paper explores local environmental problems at both the household and neighbourhood levels in Chittagong, based on a broad spectrum household survey. The survey shows that households in poor areas are very exposed to localized environmental problems and thus necessarily develop a wide range of coping strategies around the living …
