The global cost of disasters is growing: The economic burden of disasters is intensifying. While the direct costs of disasters averaged $70–80 billion a year between 1970 and 2000, between 2001 and 2020 these annual costs grew significantly to $180–200 billion. But the real cost is far higher. Disaster costs …
DINDIGUL: Creation of more green cover by growing a large number of trees will scale down global warming and keep the earth cool and make it an ideal place for all living things; traditional agriculture practices will protect cultivable lands. These observations were made at the South Regional Environment Conference …
This document by national climate centre of IMD computes district wise drought probabilities across India for 319 districts having long data series of rainfall. Has done mapping for moderate & severe drought probabilities for various districts & demarcates regions belonging to different class intervals of probabilities of drought. Mapping of …
With Rajasthan facing a serious threat of water scarcity, the forest department has taken up two projects to protect birds and wildlife from drought. While under one initiative water will be brought to Keoladev Ghana National Park in Bharatpur district to save the bird population there, the other programme is …
Over three quarters of the people killed - and 95 % of the total affected by natural hazards - since the beginning of the year were due to extreme weather events said Ms. Margareta Wahlstr
The year 2009 is likely to rank in the top 10 warmest on record since the beginning of instrumental climate records in 1850, according to WMO. Finds that the decade of the 2000s (2000
This book focuses on impact of environmental/climate change on human migration. Finds that large-scale human movement from climate change and environmental degradation is not only inevitable but is already happening. It has also identified the potential future hotspots for international migration and includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh, most of Central America, several …
This is the fourth edition of the Youth Supplement to UNFPA's State of the World Population Report. This Youth Supplement addresses climate change and young people, through the lens of what impact climate change is predicted to have, and what that will mean for young people's lives, livelihoods, health, rights …
This report summarises the study in northern Ganga plains and coastal Tamil Nadu and Gujarat. The objective of the study was to pilot tasks to enable local communities better deal with impacts of climate variability and anthropogenic climate change such as floods and droughts. It pursued a "learning-by-doing" approach to …
This paper highlights published cases related to various climatic conditions that have impacts on rice cultivation practices. Due to the needs to continue rice farming, whether for traditional, cultural or economic reasons, rice farmers in Asia resorted to various adaptation practices that might have deviated from their common practices. This …
Manipur farmers have started to face the impact of the recent drought-like situation in the harvest season here. Hundreds of farmers in Imphal East district having paddy area of 26,584 hectares were disappointed recently when they were greeted by
BHUBANESWAR: The State Government on Tuesday declared 3,264 villages in 70 blocks and 41 wards in nine urban local bodies as drought-affected and sought an assistance of Rs 843.965 cr from the National Calamity Contingency Fund (NCCF) to tackle the situation. Announcing this in the Assembly, Revenue and Disaster Management …
SAMBALPUR: Even as farmers continued their agitations across the region over prevailing drought, the Sambalpur district administration has attributed erratic rainfall and pest attack as primary reasons behind crop failure in its crop cutting reports. Sambalpur District Collector P.K. Pattnaik
Revenue Minister Surjya Narayan Patro today admitted in the Assembly that there had been more than 50 per cent crop loss in autumn paddy. Replying to an unstarred question from Adikanda Sethi (CPI), the Minister said that according to assessment made from the crop cutting experiment in 3,264 villages and …
Jammu: Though the state government has announced three months ration free of cost for drought-affected Kandi areas of Jammu, farmers of different parts of the region have demanded drought relief for hilly areas also. Farmers of Reasi, Ramnagar, Batote, Chenani and other hilly areas have pointed out that additional relief …
Sri Lankan President Mahinda Rajapaksa has directed to provide adequate compensations to the farmers who are affected by the existing drought in Ampara District, Media Minister Lakshman Yapa Abeywardena said. The farmers in the area have been experiencing heavy losses due to the prevailing drought as their economy is highly …
After an early onset over Kerala on 23 May 2009, further advance of the monsoon over the Indian region was delayed by about two weeks with the monsoon restricted to the west coast and southern peninsula until 24 June. This resulted in a massive deficit in the all-India rainfall of …
