The HKH Snow Update 2025 highlights a significant decline in seasonal snow across the Hindu Kush Himalaya region, with snow persistence 23.6% below normal — the lowest in 23 years. This trend, now in its third consecutive year, threatens water security for nearly two billion people. All twelve major river …
BHUBANESWAR: Cyclone shelters along the Orissa coast are all set for a makeover. Besides providing shelter to the community in times of natural calamities, these centres are proposed to be converted into full-blown communication hubs. The recent experience of Orissa State Disaster Mitigation Authority (OSDMA) in handling the warning, sensitisation, …
Community Based Disaster Risk Management (CBDRM) seeks to contribute to gender equality and women’s empowerment. The CBDRM Training and Learning Circle (TLC) network has developed this training manual on Integrating Gender into Community Based Disaster Risk Management, to help harness the capacities of both women and men in addressing vulnerable …
The landslide-caused glacial lake in the Hunza Valley has put the Pakistani authorities on an emergency footing, but this catastrophe had been predicted for years.
Sharad Vyas | TNN Mumbai: As part of its preparedness plans for monsoon 2010, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) served the first batch of warning notices on Friday to landslide-prone areas of the eastern suburbs. Nearly 100 notices were given out to those living in hilly areas of Kurla, Saki …
Mumbai The Navy and the National Disaster Response Force will join the BMC fire brigade in flood management as the city braces for a good monsoon this year. After a series of mock flood drills to train its personnel for rescue operations, the BMC has approached the Navy and the …
BHUBANESWAR: Laila, the cyclonic storm, formed over Bay of Bengal, was heading towards the Andhra Pradesh coast and its outer wings may just graze Orissa causing rain. The storm after its landfall is likely to move into coastal parts of Orissa. In anticipation, the State Government has already alerted the …
Mumbai: The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation(BMC) claims it is ready with its pre-monsoon plan. A ward-wise control room will be commissioned from May 20 and manpower will be readied for disaster preparedness. The National Disaster Relief Flood (NDRF) will form three groups of 45 jawans each for the city, the western …
The PWD on Thursday began removing the mud, which was deposited in the Bicholim River, where the construction of a bridge is in progress. It may be recalled that PWD, while undertaking the construction work of the parallel bridge on Bicholim River, had deposited heaps of mud near one of …
Disasters and climate change are increasingly influencing the attainment of development objectives. Poor people regularly face hazards and stresses which undermine their lives and production systems, and on occasions result in widespread disaster. Climate change is causing many hazards and stresses to increase in frequency and intensity. The unpredictability of …
Paris: For ages, mankind has craved a tool that can provide early warning of that terrifying moment when the earth begins to shake. But if a scientific paper published on Wednesday is confirmed, we may at last have found one. The best hope yet of an earthquake predictor could lie …
The National Plan for Disaster Management 2010-2015 is an outcome of the national and international commitments of the Government of Bangladesh (GoB) and the Disaster Management and Relief Division (DM&RD;) for addressing the disaster risks comprehensively. The plan has been developed on the basis of the GoB Vision and MoFDM …
N. Gopal Raj Haiti, where 2,30,000 people are thought to have perished in an earthquake in January, has heightened the concerns of our seismologists and engineers.
Determined to maximise kharif production irrespective of the rainfall situation this year the government has asked the states to prepare detailed contingency plans to deal with a drought like situation. Agriculture minister Sharad Pawar said that the severe drought during last kharif season had posed a serious challenge in achieving …
Kumar Manish | TNN Ahmedabad: Summer has begun in earnest, pushing the mercury up but for Ahmedabad Municipal Corporation (AMC) it is time to draw up the monsoon action plan! The reason? AMC has made promises in this regard to the National Consumers Disputes Redressal Commission at New Delhi. What
The Indonesian archipelago is known for the occurrence of catastrophic earthquake-generated tsunamis along the Sunda Arc. The tsunami hazard associated with submarine landslides however has not been fully addressed. In this paper, we compile the known tsunamigenic events where landslide involvement is certain and summarize the properties of published landslides …
Mayor M.Subramanian and Anna University Vice Chancellor P.Mannar Jawahar interact with engineers of Chennai Corporation at a training programme on Wednesday. CHENNAI: The Centre for Disaster Mitigation and Management, Anna University, will soon take up seismic risk evaluation of big private buildings, including residential complexes in the city. This would …
Mumbai After a series of terror response drills , the city will now see a drill to check preparedness for an urban flood. The National Disaster Management Authority will carry out the drill, albeit without water, on February 17 and 18 in Mumbai to asses if the city is ready …
The people of Tajikistan, a small, mountainous country in Central Asia, are experiencing the impacts of climate change. More frequent droughts and heightened extreme weather conditions are hitting poor communities, eroding their resilience. The country
This programme evaluation report describes the processes of the 2009 Community-Managed Disaster Risk Reduction (CMDRR) programme as a community-driven approach, including partner training in methodology, engagement in community mobilisation, community hazard mapping, and community designed plans to reduce their disaster risks. The report highlights successful working implementations and sustainable interventions, …
