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 …
This brief has been prepared for the UN Convention on Climate Change meeting in Copenhagen, December 2009, to raise awareness of the imminent impacts of climate change on food security in Pacific island countries and territories and to urge participants to consider the importance of mainstreaming food security in climate-related …
BHUBANESWAR: Natural disasters kill about 1,300 people every year in Orissa, said a report released here Thursday on the 10th anniversary of the super cyclone in which over 8,000 lives were lost. Prepared by the Orissa State Disaster Mitigation Authority (OSDMA), the report was released by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. …
If you think coastal districts have high relative vulnerability to flood, then you might be wrong. For, tribal dominated non-coastal districts like Gajapati, Kalahandi, Boudh, Koraput, Kandhamal, Jharsuguda, Nabarangpur and Sundargarh are with higher risk index because of the low exposure to the population. On the other hand, lower relative …
PARADIP: When the super-cyclone hit Jagatsinghpur district in 1999, many in the worst-hit Erasama closed their eyes forever. But those who survived the nature
Sanjib Chakraborty BASIRHAT, 19 OCT: Six months after the devastation caused by cyclone Aila, several villages in the Sunderbans still remain cut off from the rest of the state, as the roads connecting Kolkata with these remote areas are yet to be repaired. The sub-divisional authorities have been showing reluctance …
The embankments by the rivers of Rupsha and Shibsa are swarmed with temporary shelters housing the people affected by Cyclone Aila. Blue and orange plastic sheeting over their shabby make-shift huts can be seen from miles away while people sit idle waiting for the water to recede. Nobody imagined that …
BHUBANESWAR: The average financial loss of the State per annum due to different disasters has been estimated at Rs 1,241.82 crore. In its memorandum submitted to the Thirteenth Finance Commission (TFC), the State Government maintained that the financial loss due to disasters during the last 14 years stood at Rs …
The Geological Survey and Mines Bureau yesterday said the displacement of plates which had resulted in the recent earthquakes in Indonesia had created a possibility of tsunamis. Geological Survey and Mines Bureau Deputy Director Geology S. M. A. T. B. Mudunkotuwa told the Daily Mirror that the movement of displaced …
Population density intensifies in every country around the world. Recent statistics shows (World total population Wikipedia) the total population in the world is around 6.78 billion people whereas in 100 years before the overall population was approximately 2.0 billion. 100 years ago most of the countries were dependent on agriculture. …
Mango buds, honeysuckle and muster-flower are blooming earlier in the winter. Foggy days are longer than in the past and northern part of Bangladesh is no more cooler. Cyclone and flood are becoming common and frequent every year. These are indications of a warming climate. The Bangladesh is particularly vulnerable …
The ongoing global climate change (CC) has already caused a grave concern to the country's agriculture, irrigation, navigation, ecology, bio-diversity, weather, environment and underground water levels, concerned experts said. As a result, rainfalls, floods, cyclones, droughts, cold and hot spells, sea and surface warming, water contamination, water and soil salinity, …
Typhoon Ketsana headed west toward Laos on Wednesday after battering central Vietnam with powerful winds and heavy rain, leaving behind blue and sunny skies but dangerously rising floodwaters. The official death toll in Vietnam was placed at 41, but officials said that number was expected to rise as more reports …
Within few decades, climate change has quadrupled the number of natural disasters. Especially in Asia, more and more people are affected. Bangladesh is one of the countries where disaster risk reduction works fairly well. And Burma (Myanmar) is trying to enhance the crisis management after the bad experience with cyclone …
BHUBANESWAR: The meteorological centre here Monday alerted fishermen in Orissa not to venture into the sea as it would be rough due to a low pressure area over the Bay of Bengal, officials said. "The low pressure area has formed over west central bay and adjoining north-west bay off north …
Over his 45 years, Siddique Ur-Rahman, a Bangladeshi rice farmer, has watched as his world has been gradually swallowed by water. During his youth his family cultivated 7.2 acres along the Kholpotua River, a waterway then so narrow that villagers standing on one bank could call across to those on …
A summit of world leaders has dimmed hopes for a strong new U.N. climate pact to replace the Kyoto Protocol in Copenhagen in December, with details looking ever more likely to be left for 2010. But climate change experts and observers also refused to focus on the negative, noting that …
The world leaders who met at the United Nations to discuss climate change on Tuesday are faced with an intricate challenge: building momentum for an international climate treaty at a time when global temperatures have been relatively stable for a decade and may even drop in the next few years. …
The rising temperature may result in significant reduction in the Gross Domestic Product of Bangladesh which is part of the Himalayan system, apart from the risk the country is facing of losing 18 per cent of its land due to the rising water level of the oceans. Terming Bangladesh one …
Speakers at a function here have said that the country had been experiencing dismal climate change causing a grave concern to agriculture, food, human health, irrigation, navigation, soil, bio-diversity, environment, livelihood and water levels. " The increasing trends of tidal surge, cyclone Sidr and hurricane, tsunami, fluctuation in temperature, irregular, …
