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 …
Torrential rains killed a woman and troops were deployed to help thousands of people after storms and flash floods hit Australia's Queensland state overnight, just days after cyclonic weather battered the tropical region. The woman was swept away in her four-wheel-drive as storms dumped 250 millimeters (9.8 inches) of rain …
Cyclone-like storms ripped across the southeast corner of Australia's tropical state Queensland, killing one man, destroying houses and leaving more than 230,000 homes and businesses without power, authorities said on Monday. The storms cut a path of destruction on Sunday night from the state capital Brisbane to the tourist havens …
G.V.R. Subba Rao MACHILIPATNAM: Heavy downpour accompanied by strong winds and gales hit the district headquarters following concentration of cyclone in the Bay of Bengal on Saturday. An alert was sounded in coastal Andhra as cyclone over the Bay of Bengal threatened to hit the coast by night. The cyclone …
Over a million people are struggling without proper homes and at greater risk of disease than before, almost one year after cyclone Sidr ravaged parts of Bangladesh, Oxfam said on Wednesday. Cyclone Sidr, the country's worst cyclone since 1991, ripped through over a dozen coastal districts on Nov. 15 last …
Tens of thousands of farmers in the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta face the prospect of a thin rice harvest this monsoon season and uncertainty over whether they will be able to plant the vital summer crop. "We cultivated the fields quite late this year and we did not have enough livestock …
Bangladesh has a climate change action plan AT A UK-Bangladesh conference in London, Bangladesh launched its Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan in September. The uk agreed to provide
Aman paddy, vegetables, mustard, pulses, chilli on 2,60,330 hectares of lands have been damaged in the devastating cyclone Reshmi in 30 districts in the country, according to sources of the Ministry of Agriculture. A total of 2,60,330 hectares land with 2,15,495 under transplanted Aman, 2,655 hectares with B-Aman, 14,157 hectares …
Cyclone Rashmi which hit the south early Monday has damaged crops on 2.28 lakh hectares of land in 11 districts of Barisal agriculture region and on about 1 lakh hectares in Jhenaidah, officials concerned feared. The department of agricultural extension office in the region said field workers were busy assessing …
Launches remain stationary at Sadar Ghat in the capital yesterday as the government prevented them from operating in the inclement weather. Photo: STAR The deep depression over the Bay of Bengal grew into Cyclone Reshmi yesterday, and was approaching the country's south-western coast with the possibility of making landfall by …
The United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and the European Commission (EC) have signed a MoU to jointly support Bangladesh in its environmental management activities. Ambassador Stefan Frowein, Head of Delegation of the EC to Bangladesh and Denise Rollins, Mission Director of USAID Bangladesh signed a memorandum of understanding …
Tropical cyclones may be a tiny help in slowing global warming by washing large amounts of vegetation and soil containing greenhouse gases into the sea, scientists said on Sunday. A study in Taiwan of the LiWu river showed that floods caused by typhoon Mindulle in 2004 swept into the Pacific …
Ongole Oct. 16: The incharge collector, Mr A. Dinakar Babu, on Thursday called upon the officials to be vigilant during floods and cyclones as Prakasam district has 102 km of seacoast. He said 18 cyclone shelters would be constructed in the district apart from the present 30 to serve people …
Cyclones in Bangladesh are large areas of low atmospheric pressure, characterized by inward-spiraling winds, which occur in the Indian Ocean. These pressure systems are known as typhoons in the Pacific Ocean, and hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. Every year these storms create chaos and destruction all over the world, but …
Hyderabad, Sept. 24: The Centre will soon set up a National Cyclone Disaster Management Institute at Visakhapatnam. General N.C. Vij, vice-chairman of the National Disaster Management Authority, said here on Wednesday that the state government had offered land for the institute. The institute will integrate technical support for disasters from …
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Hurricane Ike strengthened rapidly into an fiercely dangerous Category 4 hurricane in the open Atlantic on Wednesday and Tropical Storm Hanna intensified to a lesser degree as it swirled over the Bahamas toward the southeast US Coast. Ike posed no immediate threat to land but strengthened explosively, growing in the …
Warm Seas Convert More Energy Into Cyclone Winds Paris: Global warming is likely to boost the power of the strongest tropical cyclones, a study released on Wednesday says. An additional 1
