The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Dehra Dun: Central teams arrived here on Thursday to make an assessment of the damage caused by landslides, cloudbursts and floods following incessant rain in various parts of Uttarakhand. Three teams from the Centre comprising officers and experts of various departments have landed in Uttarakhand for making the assessment, a …
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 …
Soil and water are the two important natural resources, which are the backbone of the Indian agriculture. The prime cause for the backwardness of the farmers is reduction in soil fertility and productivity, due to massive soil erosion. Most of the farmers are depending mainly on renewable natural resources for …
This report highlights how better legislation can help to significantly reduce the human suffering caused by the growing number of natural disasters. It highlights three areas where IFRC expects law to make a key difference in Asia Pacific and where the Red Cross and Red Crescent is supporting governments to …
Oaxaca: A landslide buried some 300 homes in a poor, remote area of southwestern Mexico early on Tuesday, possibly killing hundreds of people while they slept. Heavy rains in mountainous Oaxaca state brought a giant swathe of earth down on homes in Santa Maria Tlahuitoltepec, a town of 9,000 people, …
The government on Wednesday decided to give cash compensation directly to the affected people of Barapukuria coal mine as per their demand. "We have decided to give cash money to the affected people of Barapukuria coal mine area directly", M. Mizbahuddin, secretary of the energy division told BSS on Wednesday. …
DEHRA DUN: The Uttarakhand Assembly on Wednesday unanimously passed a resolution urging the Centre to declare the massive devastation by rain, landslides and floods in the hill State a national disaster. The day began with the Bahujan Samaj Party members entering the well of the House demanding a debate on …
Dehradun/Lucknow: Water levels at the Tehri dam rose menacingly, following incessant rain in the hills of Uttarakhand, and the release of waters from its massive reservoir to avoid breaches threatened flooding of nearly 1,200 villages downstream along the Ganga. But a threat of floods in Haridwar passed, with Tehri authorities …
Heavy rains since July have badly damaged the road network in Garhwal division of Uttarakhand and hampered the chardham pilgrimage this season. Since last few days excessive rise in water level of the much-hyped Tehri dam is the breaking news in most regional TV channels. Although I am not a …
Heavy monsoon rains and landslides swept the hilly areas of northern India over the weekend, killing at least 47 people, officials said Monday. Twenty-four people died Sunday as falling boulders crushed their homes in three villages in Almorah district in Uttrakhand state, said Prashant Kumar Tamta, a state government spokesman. …
Top BJP leaders L K Advani and Sushma Swaraj on Sunday spoke to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Home Minister P Chidambaram about the grave flood situation in the BJP-ruled state of Uttarakhand. Sources in the BJP said Uttarakhand CM Ramesh Pokhriyal
A cloud burst over arid Himalayan town of Leh in Ladakh on August 6, pouring some 250 mm of rain in an hour. The sudden downpour triggered flash floods and mudslides, killing over 180 people and wiping out the old town of Leh and two villages. Weathermen say the high-altitude …
Following The Indian Express report, building of Pinjore road put on hold, debris disposal gets priority The Himachal Pradesh Pollution Control Board (HPPCB) has asked the National Highways Authority of India (NHAI) to immediately stop work on the Pinjore-Shimla highway. In a two-part report published on August 25-26, The Indian …
Natural disaster claimed lives of at least 258 people across the country within two-and-one-half months, according to a government report. Publicising its data, the Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA) on Thursday said that over 258 people died and property worth over Rs. 30 million was damaged due to flood, landslide, …
A 2007 file picture shows traffic stalled on National Highway 39 because of landslides. Three years later, hardly anything has changed Kohima, Aug. 20: Kohima has been cut off from both sides of National Highway 39, following rain-induced landslide at Kisama, around 12km from here, towards Imphal. The landslide occurred …
Dehradun: A day after 18 students died as their school building caved in following landslides, the state government on Friday decided to relocate 101 villages situated in extremely dangerous and seismologically sensitive places across Garhwal and Kumaon regions. Chief minister Ramesh Pokhriyal Nishank said in Bageshwar that the government had …
At least 18 children, all below the age of 10, died this morning after a landslide triggered by a cloudburst struck a primary school building in the hills of Bageshwar in Uttarakhand. Thirty students and two teachers were in the school at the time of the incident. Eight injured children …
Heavy rains lashed a remote section of northwestern China as the toll from weekend flooding that triggered massive landslides jumped to 1,117, although the fading hopes of rescuers got a boost late on Wednesday when a survivor was found in the debris.The Xinhua News Agency gave no details on the …
