Billionaires In Boats And Other Oddities
‘Billionaires in boats’ — if you were to read this phrase on any given day,…
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Water-Related Disasters Could Cost Global Eco $5.6 Tn By 2050
Worsening droughts, storms and torrential rain in some of the world’s largest economies could cause…
Traditional Building Techniques Could Mitigate Flood Damage In Assam
Himanshu Pegu, a resident of Silchar in India’s northeastern Assam state, is one of many…
Kashmir’s Flood Management Plan Faces Flak
On 22 June this year, the government declared a flood alarm in the Kashmir valley, after…
Climate Change Is Making Flooding Worse
Heavy rain combined with melting snow can be a destructive combination. In mid-June 2022, storms…
Stalled Monsoon Behind Devastating Floods In NE India, B’desh
The first half of 2022 has seen South Asia hit by both severe heatwaves and…
Climate Change, Poor Planning Behind Assam’s Mounting Flood Ferocity
Every year, around this time, life comes to a complete standstill in Assam, pounded by…
Floods In Assam Lead To Massive Destruction, Cripple Life
On the edge of the National Highway 31 in Assam, where floodwater had completely submerged…
Floods: Millions Marooned In India, B’desh
Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled…
How Will We Live With Limited Freshwater?
The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming…
Flood Situation Critical In Assam, Other States
The flood situation in the northeast took a turn for the worse on Friday as…
Floods Disrupt Monsoon Weddings In Bihar
The monsoon rains had doused the brutal summer heatwave, and the season of fertility and…
Walking In The Shadow Of MP’s Massive Floods
Bundelkhand, a region shared by the massive Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh,…
Twin Crises Of Heat & Floods Expose Neglect
Rains over the weekend brought some relief from a sweltering heatwave to northern India, but…
Climate Change Is Making Floods Worse Too
Super cyclones, known as hurricanes or typhoons in different parts of the world, are among…
How To Survive A Heatwave
On colour-coded temperature charts, the Indian subcontinent is currently a sickly mauve. An unusually intense…
Assam: Despite Repeated Disasters, Many Have No Desire To Migrate
Habidul Islam plans to never move away again from the place where he grew up….
The River In North India Being Hollowed Out For Concrete
It was around 5 AM on 19 October 2021, dark, drizzling and cold in the…
Bihar: Women, Floods And Increasing Violence
After devastating floods struck the northeastern Indian state of Bihar in August 2017, the country’s…
Climate Change & Disasters On The Third Pole
In many ways, 2021 marked a new threshold for climate change-related disasters. Global headlines were…
MPs Make A Start In Understanding Rivers
The Indian Parliamentary Standing Committee report on water resources released on 3 August looks at…
In Assam, Village Committees Lead The Way During Floods
Over the past three decades, the severity of both droughts and floods has increased in…
Stilt Houses Help People Withstand Floods In Assam
Ratan Pathuri watches floodwater swirl below his veranda. The swollen Dhansiri River has inundated Pathuri’s…
Heavy Rains Unleash Havoc In West, South India
A total of 129 people have died in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra in 48 hours,…
Europe Floods: Search For Missing Goes On As Toll Tops 90
The death toll from devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium rose above…