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 …
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 …
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 …
The tsunami of December 26, 2004, devastated many coastal areas in Sri Lanka. Curiously, the tsunami spared several areas which had mangroves - dense forests of salt-resistant trees and shrubs that grow in brackish, low-lying coastal swamps in the tropics and subtropics. This clearly manifested in Bangladesh, which recorded very …
Disaster-prone Bangladesh braced on Friday for a cyclone gaining strength in the Bay of Bengal, raising the storm warning to signal number six and ordering fishing boats back to shore. The storm
The impact of climate change on the lives and livelihoods of people in India is now widely recognised. Yet, there is neither a consensus on the definition of vulnerability to climate change nor a full, regionally-nuanced mapping of the variable impact of such a change. It is only when a …
The National Disaster Management Authority, New Delhi, and the Regional Meteorological Centre, Kolkata, today issued a caution stating that a cyclonic storm could hit coastal parts of the state in the next 48 hours. The cyclonic trough, named Bijli, formed over the west central part of the Bay of Bengal, …
A cyclonic storm codenamed 'Bijli' formed over the west-central and adjoining east-central Bay and moved slightly northwards on Thursday evening, packing a wind speed of up to 80 kilometers per hour. A latest special bulletin of the Met Office said it was centered about 735 km southwest of Chittagong Port, …
NASA HAS used satellite data and a new modelling approach that could improve weather forecasting and save more lives when future cyclones develop. About 15 per cent of the world
RAMANATHAPURAM: First stage cyclone warning flag has been raised at Pamban port following the warning issued by the Meteorological department about the formation of possible cyclone between the coast off Chennai and Vishakapattinam. Authorities urged the fishermen not to venture into the sea for fishing. If they wanted to go …
Visakhapatnam: The deep depression over west central Bay of Bengal moved northwestwards and intensified into a cyclonic storm, Bijli, and lay over west central Bay of Bengal at 5.30 pm, about 470 km south east of Visakhapatnam, reports our correspondent. It is likely to intensify further and move in a …
Since March 12 this year five mini cyclones have hit several places in the country causing damage to several houses. On April 5th there were reports of lightening killing three people in the same family in the Puttalam District. On April 7th and 8th mini cyclones hit Puliyankulama twice, while …
At least 50 houses were partially damaged due to a twister that blew across Ihalapuliyankulam at Karuwalagaswewa in the Puttalam District last night. Residents of the area said the twister blew across their village for about seven minutes with a loud sound. Most of the houses have been damaged due …
Several houses were damaged when a mini cyclone hit Ehala Puliyankulam and Medagama in the Puttalam District last evening. Disaster Management Centre Puttalam District Coordinator Lt Col M. Mudannayaka told Daily Mirror that 4 houses have completely destroyed while several others have slightly damaged by the winds. Four trees have …
The roofs of a line of houses in the Mawussawa Estate in Nuwara Eliya were blown off in a cyclone on Sunday. There was continuous rain and hail in the area, residents said. Around 40 workers of the plantation displaced as a result of the cyclone were provided with cooked …
Unfortunately this poor country is probably the most disaster prone in the world. Rapid growth in population and a slow rate of growth of the economy have forced a substantial part of the ever increasing population to settle in areas too risky for human habitation. A large number of new …
Bangladesh on Wednesday called for the creation of a rapid deployment fund to combat sudden climatic shocks across the globe. The Bangladesh delegation leader and Department of Environment director general Md Nojibur Rahman, making a statement at the opening plenary of the two-week UN Climate Talks here said, the existence …
