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 …
MUMBAI: This monsoon, Mumbaikars might get early warnings of heavy-rain days or passing cyclones, with the meteorological bureau networking with HAM operators in the city. "Whenever disasters have struck in the past, communication has been one of the major casualties,'' said Sudhir Shah, a HAM operator. HAM radio operators get …
Traditional farming, fishing, pastoralism/herding, foraging and forestry are based on longestablished knowledge and practices that help to ensure food and agricultural diversity, valuable landscape and seascape features, livelihoods and food security. However, traditional livelihoods and indigenous plant varieties, landraces and animal breeds are now increasingly endangered by large-scale commercialization of …
This 2009 edition of the World Disasters Report focuses on disaster risk reduction. It argues that early warning without early action is not enough and calls for cost-effective prevention measures, rather than the expensive response operations. World Disasters Report 2009 focuses on two key aspects of disaster risk reduction: early …
This document details the guidelines aimed at institutionalising the landslide hazard mitigation efforts, to make society aware of the various aspects of landslide hazard in the country and to prepare the society to take suitable action to reduce both risks and costs associated with this hazard. Includes regulatory and non-regulatory …
SHWETADESAI THE promises made by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation to Mumbaikars for a better management of the 2009 monsoon, and effective tackling of floods, seem to have remained exactly the same, as promises. After delays in preparing the flood modelling system that can forecast flooding in low-lying areas and operating …
MUMBAI: Shiv Sena executive president Uddhav Thackeray will call on chief minister Ashok Chavan to press for greater coordination between the BMC, the railways, the Airport Authority of India (AAI) and the MMRDA to prevent flooding in Mumbai during monsoon. "There are too many agencies working at cross purposes. The …
Though the rainy season is approaching, Assam is still not fully equipped to deal with the problem of floods and to mitigate the sufferings of the people of the affected areas. Of course, the Chief Minister Tarun Gogoi recently held a high-level meet with the concerned Ministers and officers to …
The great Sichuan earthquake of 12 May 2008 caught Earth scientists off guard. A year on, Alexandra Witze reports from the shattered towns on how researchers have learned from their failures.
The international Commission on Climate Change and Development is launching its final report on the 14th of May at the UN, with participation of Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. The work of the Commission has focused on adaptation to climate change, its links with disaster risk reduction and how the strengthening of …
The government has decided to extend stone apron and pitching along (Katcha Kharif) bund in district Kashmore, to protect agriculture land, buildings, communication, highway and other infrastructure from the heavy flood of River Indus. According to sources, main objective of the scheme was to ensure safety of the K.K Bund …
This paper is an initial attempt to consider the role in adaptation of insurance and related risk sharing and risk transfer methods, in the context of a comprehensive approach to risk reduction and risk management. It is the result of informal conversations at Poznan between members of the United Nations …
This is the first biennial global assessment of disaster risk reduction prepared in the context of the International Strategy for Disaster Reduction. It focuses on the nexus between disaster risk and poverty, in a context of global climate change. The 2009 Global Assessment Report on Disaster Risk Reduction is the …
Sialkot Chamber of Commerce and Industry (SCCI) has taken the direly needed initiative to create awareness among its members regarding the importance of Disaster and Crises Management. SCCI will organise a daylong seminar and a demonstration exercise on importance of "Disaster & Crisis Management" in active collaboration with the District …
Ahmedabad/Bhuj: The new jail in this town on the Indo-Pak border is finally ready. The 100-year-old Bhuj jail had collapsed in the January 26 quake of 2001 and more than 150 inmates, including six Pakistanis, booked for smuggling RDX into Gujarat, had escaped. Nobody can forget the dramatic escapade, when …
Reliable medium range prediction of monsoon weather is crucial for disaster preparedness. Weather in tropics, controlled by fast growing convective instabilities is, however, intrinsically less predictable than that in extra?tropics. Increased frequency and intensity of extreme rain events in the tropics in the backdrop of global warming has a potential …
Norway yesterday pledged aiding Bangladesh in social safety-net programmes and managing post-earthquake situation. During a meeting with Food and Disaster Management Minister Dr Abdur Razzaque at his ministry office, Norwegian International Development Affairs State Minister Hakon Arald said his country would help Bangladesh in strengthening the institutes to combat disasters, …
Mumbai: The government has pulled up Central Railway (CR) and the Airports Authority of India (AAI) for their lack of preparedness for the monsoon. At the first pre-monsoon disaster management meeting on Friday, additional chief secretary (home) Chandra Iyengar had called officials from various state, central and semigovernment agencies. Iyengar …
