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 …
Ashwani Sharma Two droughts wiping out 50 per cent of the rabi crop, the apple produce reduced to half of its usual quantity, the unusual rise in temperature, and the delayed monsoons
BHUBANESHWAR: Even as the Centre declared 246 districts in 10 states as drought-hit, not a single district of the State figured in the list because the Government failed to submit a preliminary report on the drought condition. Lambasting the BJD Government for its apathy to the plight of the distressed …
Beijing: Beijing residents woke up on Sunday morning to a city turned white with snow that came far ahead of the winter. It was only in the later part of the day that people learnt that 186 doses of silver iodide went into persuading the clouds to release the snow …
The weather has been in the news for all the wrong reasons across India this year. Typically, a 10 per cent shortage over 20 per cent of the country qualifies as a drought, according to the Indian Meteorological Department
Global climate change will have inevitable consequences and implications for the humanitarian community. Although specific outcomes are unclear, it is certain that the world will experience significant transformations in the next 20 years, and that currently vulnerable populations will be among those most affected. Researchers from the Stockholm Environment Institute, …
This manual for drought management suggests a system for drought management policy and programmes to be followed by the Government of India and State Governments. It focuses on the general/common elements of drought management at the national level, while allowing the states to include their specific schemes and interventions and …
Drought has been sweeping the Santhal Pargana Region of Jharkhand. The region has got less than 70 percent of its rainfall in this year 2009, which has supported in declaraton of drought hit state. The decision was taken at the meeting of the Advisory Council of the Governor.
The issue of giving drought package to Punjab figured informally at the Union Cabinet meeting last evening. Official sources said Prime Minister Manmohan Singh himself raised the issue, asking his cabinet colleagues that the states which spent money to save their crops from the onslaught of drought and contributed foodgrains …
Dharma SRI ABEYRATNE The Government has appointed a Cabinet sub committee to look into the drought prevailing in certain parts of the country. The committee consists of four Ministers who will take action to assist the victims. Disaster Management and Human Rights Minister Mahinda Samarasinghe, Mass Media and Information, Enterprise …
SAMBALPUR: A visit of a three-member delegation of civil liberties group Lok Nayak Jay Prakash International Research and Development Centre to the villages of Khapsadera, Pradhan Pali and Jamankira in Sambalpur district and Sagarpali in Jharsuguda district where farmers committed suicide, concluded today. The team comprised retired High Court Judge …
More than a 1000 families in the Binthenna area are in a predicament for want of drinking water caused by the prolonged drought. The Maduru-Oya, which is the only source of water in the area, has run dry and people are compelled to dig pits in the river bed to …
The Sri Lankan government has appointed a cabinet subcommittee to provide immediate relief to drought affected persons in various parts of the country. Cabinet of Ministers who met last night under the patronage of President Mahinda Rajapaksa has appointed Minister of Disaster Management Mahinda Samarasinghe to lead the subcommittee. Rishad …
The residents as well as devotees in Kataragama, one of the sacred cities in Sri Lanka are hit by a severe drought once again. According to the sources the entire region has not received the expected rains on time and it has resulted in this severe drought in the area. …
THE UPA government has refused to raise the number of job days that it provides under the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) though it would allow an extra 50 days employment in drought-hit regions on a case-to-case basis from a separate fund. Last month, the Empowered Group of Ministers …
A lesson from history on how to prevent climate-induced wars THE starkest views of climate change paint war as a looming threat. The idea that violence will erupt as drought and rising sea levels displace people from their homes is, in part, why the Nobel prize for peace was awarded …
The initial failure of the monsoon in large parts of India, and the subsequent floods in the South, are seriously affecting production of our major crops. Sugarcane is expected to decline by nearly 30 per cent in Maharashtra. Incomes of small rain-fed farms in semi-arid Andhra Pradesh could decline by …
A rising population will make it harder for the United States to make 2050 cuts in greenhouse gas emissions than for Russia and some other rich nations with shrinking populations, a Reuters survey showed. Leaders of the Group of Eight agreed in July to cut developed nations' emissions by 80 …
