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 …
It is not just a case of the monsoon not keeping its date with the Indian farmers this year. Scientists from the National Institute of Oceanography and the Central Marine Fisheries Institute say there has been a deficiency of 70mm rainfall between 1995 and 2005, compared to 8mm in the …
Even as most parts of the State experienced monsoon bounty over the last few days, dark clouds of drought are hovering over the district. Crops sown in 82,000 hectares have failed owing to scanty rains. The district administration, in a letter addressed to the Gulbarga Regional Commissioner, has brought the …
LUCKNOW: Lucknow is among the 11 other districts of Uttar Pradesh that have been declared drought-hit by the State Government taking into account the rainfall quotient and the ratio of kharif sowing. The ten other districts are Chitrakoot, Etawah, Bulandshahr, Kaushambi, Pilibhit, Muzaffarnagar, Kushinagar, Jhansi, Bijnor and Mirzapur. The total …
LUCKNOW: The state capital finds itself in the grip of drought with rainfall less than 46% below normal in this monsoon so far, lowest in more than twenty years. Though the district administration began preparing its action plan to provide relief to the farmers, the weatherman warned that more tough …
The Secretariat of the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) has invited comments on a draft Water Policy Advocacy Framework, which seeks to provide a framework for the Secretariat to advocate for the development of water resource management policies at country level. The Framework was developed on the understanding that, …
This latest document details short term strategy to moderate current drought impact and medium or long term strategy needed to negate such calamities in future. See Also Report: Crisis management plan: drought www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/279400 Feature: Rain Shocked www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/277687 Feature: India must focus on rainfed farming www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/39882 Report: National water mission under …
Diverting water from the Tigris and Euphrates rivers to supply agriculture, alongside a warming climate, means the once-bountiful region is becoming desert.
Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has sought an appointment with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to take up with him the issues related to the state. Official sources said Badal would fly to Delhi on August 2 and would meet the Prime Minister the next day, in case the appointment …
July 30: The monsoon has betrayed the state this year and a looming drought now stares hard at it. Though the Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, has always claimed that the rain gods are with him, this time they have turned their faces away. His prayers and pujas have …
Good water-management policies are needed to cope with flood-drought cycles Good water-management policies are needed for India to cope with flood-drought cycles, often in neighbouring areas. Last fortnight, the dominant image on TV screens was drought. This fortnight, it was vast parts of the country drowned in water by the …
- Relief plans for Giridih, Santhal Pargana; crop insurance extended Governor K. Sankaranarayanan today declared seven more districts as drought hit, taking the total number of parched zones to 11. According to Raj Bhavan spokesman S.N. Jha, the new districts on the drought list are Dumka, Deoghar, Pakur, Godda, Sahebganj …
Rich nations must agree to large, measurable cuts in their greenhouse gas emissions, if the world is to set a framework to tackle global warming at U.N.-led talks in December, a senior Chinese official said on Wednesday. Xie Zhenhua, a deputy chief of the National Development and Reform Commission who …
Paddy transplantation delayed; soyabean sowing unaffected. Of the targeted 106 lakh hecatres, over 97.52 lakh hectares have already been covered with various kharif crops such as paddy, soyabean, maize, bajra, pulses and cotton. Purnima S. Tripathi Unlike most parts of the country grappling with drought-like situation, Madhya Pradesh is sitting …
The State government has declared 16th districts as drought areas. On the other hand though it had started 2069 schemes of supplying water through irrigation, 500 schemes have not been implemented properly, the farmers allege. In Golaghat district only seven schemes have been actively working out of 23 schemes. The …
The Chitradurga district has a dubious distinction of facing drought 59 times in the last 100 years. Even this year the drought scenario looms large over the district due to the insufficient rains in the monsoon. The onion crop which is withering due to the lack of rains in the …
AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi will lead a delegation of party leaders from Bundelkhand, UP and meet Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Tuesday to request a package for the rain deficient area. UPCC chief Rita Bahuguna Joshi and Jhansi MP Pradeep Jain along with Bundelkhand Congress committee office bearers and …
The world can learn from a British plan for "carbon budgets" to fight climate change even though London often promises more than it delivers, a senior government adviser said. Jonathon Porritt, who steps down as chairman of the Sustainable Development Commission on Monday, gave the Labour government a mixed report …
