The International Organization for Migration (IOM) launched the World Migration Report 2024, which reveals significant shifts in global migration patterns, including a record number of displaced people and a major increase in international remittances. The report highlights that international migration remains a driver of human development and economic growth, highlighted …
Judgement of the Supreme Court of India in the matter of Committee for C.R. of C.A.P. & Others Vs. State of Arunachal Pradesh & Others dated 17/09/2015 regarding grant citizenship to the Chakma and Hajong Tribals who migrated to India in 1964-1969 and were settled in the State of Arunachal …
Britain looks set to overtake Germany as the European Union's most populous country by 2050, according to statistical agency Eurostat. If current migration and birth rate trends are maintained, the UK will number 77.2 million people at that point, compared to Germany's 74.7 million. Subsequently Britain's population will continue to …
In the eastern highlands of Manicaland province, crudely built wood, mud, and thatch hovels cling perilously to the mountainsides. The illegal homes, the government says, belong to migrants who have fled drought-prone areas of the province in search of fertile soil and good rains. And they are growing in number …
Nitrogen oxides, released from fossil fuel use and other combustion processes, affect air quality and climate. From the mid-1990s onward, nitrogen dioxide (NO2) has been monitored from space, and since 2004 with relatively high spatial resolution by the Ozone Monitoring Instrument. Strong upward NO2 trends have been observed over South …
MGNREGA Sameeksha II is proposed as a continuation of the objective of nurturing a discourse around MGNREGA which is open, scientific, critical and constructive. It reviews research studies carried out and published over the last two years (2012–14) to foster reflection and understanding about MGNREGA and its impact. It is …
Climate change, besides leading to physical destruction, is likely to affect the mental health of humans, a study has revealed. Droughts, floods, rising sea levels, increasing ambient temperatures and other consequences of climatic change can produce increasing psychological distress through mediators such as economic strain, migration, lower social capital, acculturation …
Hyderabad: The ongoing drought is fuelling distress migration from districts in Telangana, a trend that was witnessed in the early 2000s. The severe drought conditions for the second consecutive year have led to crop failure, mounting debts, chronic unemployment and failure of the NREGA scheme, especially in the districts of …
Health authorities in the state have said the long distance from the house of a person suffering from Japanese Encephalitis (JE) to a medical centre is one of the factors behind the high fatalities, as the cumbersome journey often complicates a patient's condition. Earlier, experts had expressed concern over delay …
People in the drought-hit areas of Maharashtra, especially from Marathwada region, are migrating to Pune and Hyderabad, Congress MP Rajani Patil says. Marathwada, consisting of Aurangabad, Jalna, Parbhani, Nanded, Hingoli, Beed, Latur and Osmanabad districts, which were part of the erstwhile Nizam’s state of Hyderabad, has been known to be …
Birds which have been given the highest level of protection by European rules are faring significantly better than other bird species, research has shown. The study found birds protected as “annex 1” species under the EU’s birds directive, which requires governments to take action to conserve them, are more likely …
The mighty megafauna of the last Ice Age, including the woolly mammoths, largely became extinct because of rapid climate-warming events, a study says. During the unstable climate of the Late Pleistocene (about 60,000 to 12,000 years ago) abrupt climate spikes called interstadials increased temperatures between four and 16 degrees Celsius …
KOCHI: As part of Holy Father Pope Francis’ humanitarian vision, Vatican-based Pontifical Academies of Sciences and Social Sciences will extend support to Kochi to tackle the challenges of human-induced climate change and to maintain environmental sustainability. As part of the initiative, Kochi Mayor Tony Chammany made a detailed presentation on …
Pope Francis said he had “great hopes” that a fundamental agreement to tackle climate change would be reached in Paris later this year and he believed the United Nations needed to play a central role in the fight against global warming. “The UN really needs to take a very strong …
This paper looks at adaptation from the point of view of households. It asks how political and economic institutions may affect – help or hinder – these adaptation decisions. Climate change represents a change in the (future) distribution of weather. Since the development literature has firmly established the role of …
On 25 April, Nepal experienced a catastrophic earthquake that not only took the lives of over 8,000 people, injured over 22,000, and displaced over 100,000, it also affected the livelihoods of over 2.28 million households and pushed an additional 700,000 people below the poverty line. In light of this, ICIMOD, …
An international group of climate scientists, energy analysts, and experts in risk from finance and the military today released a new independent assessment of the risks of climate change, designed to support political leaders, businesses and financial markets in their decisions on how much priority to give to the issue. …
Global warming-induced food and water shortages may cause mass migration, competition for resources and state failure, providing fertile ground for conflict and terrorism, analysts warned Monday. In a report entitled: “Climate Change, A Risk Assessment”, a global team of scientists, policy analysts and financial and military risk experts painted a …
A New Climate for Peace: Taking Action on Climate and Fragility Risks, an independent report commissioned by members of the G7, identifies seven compound climate-fragility risks that pose serious threats to the stability of states and societies in the decades ahead. Based on a thorough assessment of existing policies on …
Nature threads the very fabric of human lives in remote forest areas of developing countries. Unfortunately, we do not fully understand how ecosystem services (such as human health benefits) could be secured by conserving natural capital. Thus, we analyze a rich dataset on disease, climate, demography, land uses, and conservation …
After the formation of Uttarakhand, villagers are feeling alienated, bereft of natural resources which they claim is their right, and deprived of development. This was expressed by environmentalists and other activists, some associated with global movements like 'Chipko', who congregated in the city on Sunday. The activists spoke on a …
