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 …
One year after Cyclone Nargis devastated a swathe of Myanmar, and with the monsoon rains setting in once more, survivors need increased international aid to prevent more deaths, the United Nations said on Tuesday. Cyclone Nargis swept across Myanmar's Irrawaddy Delta and southern Yangon on May 2, 2008, killing nearly …
ON the anniversary of the Burmese cyclone, more than a hundred thousand survivors are still living in makeshift shelters hopelessly inadequate to the monsoon rains that will soon engulf the country. But despite the population
One year on, cyclone Nargis is still taking a toll on its Burmese victims IF A few small gold earrings escaped the cyclone the villagers pawn them, otherwise they pawn their clothes. They complain that moneylenders advance only a fraction of the item
'It was about 8.30pm. The devastating Sidr was approaching the coatal land from the Bay of Bengal. Our courtyard was submerged by water brought by tidal surge. I, along with my pregnant wife Hanufa Begum, 21, and daughter Nargis, 5, started moving to a local cyclone centre for taking shelter. …
The government is taking initiatives to set up more cyclone shelters which will be used as multipurpose centres in coastal areas. This was stated by Chairman of parliamentary standing committee on food and disaster management ministry Saidul Haq at a seminar in the city yesterday. The seminar was organised jointly …
The government is taking initiatives to set up more cyclone shelters which will be used as multipurpose centres in coastal areas. This was stated by Chairman of parliamentary standing committee on food and disaster management ministry Saidul Haq at a seminar in the city yesterday. The seminar was organised jointly …
Speakers at a roundtable yesterday called upon the government to prepare special housing policy for the 45 million people living in the coastal areas where they are most vulnerable in case of national disaster. They also demanded the government should adopt the policy to construct community base cyclone proof house …
Low-lying Bangladesh risks devastating impacts from rising world sea levels caused by climate change with risks that millions will be forced from their homes this century, Foreign Minister Dipu Moni said. She told Reuters that rich nations would have to help the densely populated country of 150 million people, possibly …
The new study, conducted by scientists at the University of Delhi, India, and Duke University in the United States, analysed the 1999 'super cyclone' that ravaged Orissa, killing an estimated 10,000 people. Mangroves
Up to 250,000 children are at risk of malnutrition and disease in southern Madagascar as a political crisis and tropical cyclones exacerbate severe food shortages, the UN children agency said. UNICEF said that the rains had failed again in the Indian Ocean island's southern region, devastating the last harvest and …
Madagascar's vanilla producers expect that a double hit from destructive cyclones and a deadly political crisis will cut output of the food flavouring and hurt buyers' confidence during the 2009-2010 season. Three tropical cyclones have torn across the Indian Ocean island since January damaging crops while producers fear that a …
Thiruvananthapuram: Satellite data from the US National Atmospheric and Space Administration (NASA) and a new modelling approach could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop. About 15 percent of the world's tropical cyclones occur in the northern Indian Ocean, but because of high population densities along …
Bangladesh authorities reopened ports on Saturday and hundreds of thousands of people headed home after a cyclonic storm crossed the coast causing less damage than feared, officials said. The storm, with winds of up to 120 kph (75mph), swept over at least a dozen coastal districts and several offshore islands. …
Protection against coastal disasters has been identified as an important service of mangrove ecosystems. Empirical studies on this service have been criticized, however, for using small samples and inadequately controlling for confounding factors. We used data on several hundred villages to test the impact of mangroves on human deaths during …
T. Ramakrishnan On April 9 it accounted for about 3 MU and the next day, 4.8 MU CHENNAI: Wind power generation has, suddenly, picked up in the last three-four days, providing some respite to the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB) that has been purchasing power on a temporary basis at …
Cyclone Bijli hit the Cox'sbazar and Chittagong coasts with a maximum windspeed of 90 kilometres an hour at 7:30 PM last night. The cyclone was crossing the costal areas when the report filed late last night. The cyclone moving slightly northeastwards started pounding on offshore islands from 8:00pm stretching from …
Several lakh people living in the coastal areas of Bhola district are highly vulnerable to cyclones and tidal surges as the shelters constructed the purpose are too inadequate to accommodate the large number of people during natural disasters. Around 1.5 lakh families living in chars (island) of high-risk coastal areas …
