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When Books Sink Underwater In Assam

Assam’s annual floods pose a challenge for students commuting to schools and cause damage to the school’s infrastructure. While residents…

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India Must Get Serious About Flood Zoning

On 23 July, India’s finance minister Nirmala Sitharaman specified a major outlay for flood control during her speech on the…

1 year ago
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Kullu Valley Flood Risk: Unregulated Tourism May Be The Cause

A new study looks into the flood vulnerability of Kullu Valley by integrating both geo-environmental and socio-environmental analyses. The researchers…

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Protecting The Vulnerable From The Monsoon’s Flood Of Diseases

While much of India was reeling under intense and prolonged heat, the tiny northeastern state of Sikkim recently faced flash…

1 year ago
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Early Warning: Sharing Tech To Combat Climate Change In South Asia

Early in 2023, monsoon rains hit hard in Nepal’s Koshi Province. The cascading nature of the flood damaged hydropower infrastructure…

2 years ago
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Climate Change May Claim 14.5 Million Lives By 2050: WEF

According to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report published recently, climate change threatens to cause an additional 14.5 million deaths…

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How Climate Change Affects Mental Health

It’s unlikely any region of the world will escape the effects of climate change. These include increasing temperatures, more frequent and…

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Extreme Weather Events Struck India On 235 Of 273 Days In 2023

The recently-released Climate India 2023 report by Down to Earth paints a grim picture of the nation grappling with extreme…

2 years ago
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Flood Damage Highlights ‘Uncontrolled’ Sand Mining In North India

When a spike of rainfall hit the Indian state of Uttarakhand from early July to late August 2023, the town…

2 years ago
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History Of Encroachment, Diminishing Wetlands Behind Delhi’s Floods

When parts of Delhi were inundated with floodwaters several meters high in early July, several reports said that the river…

2 years ago
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Notes On Climate Adaptation Lessons From The Delhi Floods

Floods in Delhi have dominated the news cycle in India for the last week, setting off political conflicts, and an…

2 years ago
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ARs Caused 70% Of India’s Floods From 1985 To 2020: Study

Source: PTI The devastating floods that occurred in the country between 1985 and 2020 during the summer monsoon season were…

2 years ago
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Community Participation Helps A Maha Village Become Flood-Free

On a January evening, standing on the precincts of the ancient Shree Dattatraya Temple, about 200 metres from the Kajli…

3 years ago
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Co-Operation Across Nepal-India Border Saves Lives During Floods

Every year, residents of Bhagwatipur in southern Nepal struggle to sleep during the monsoon. Between June and September, this village…

3 years ago
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15 Mn People Live Under The Threat Of Glacial Floods: Study

Source: AP As glaciers melt and pour massive amounts of water into nearby lakes, 15 million people across the globe…

3 years ago
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Floods Come And Go But Problems Remain For Assam’s Rural Women

(Source: PTI) Rebuilding homes, besides helping children and livestock adjust to a new place, as floods turn them into refugees…

3 years ago
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Best Of ’22: Water In A Climate-Changed Region

Climate change is destabilising the freshwater supply on which all life depends. Multiple disasters in 2022 drove home the point…

3 years ago
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Loss And Ingenuity Amid Climate Change

Asian countries are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In 2022, the damage across the region from catastrophes…

3 years ago
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Floods Hit Every Continent In ’22: What Can Be Done To Limit Damage?

Communities are being pushed into a reckoning onset by climate change — adapt their way of living to mitigate flood…

3 years ago
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Climate Change: Floods Now Common In Cold, Dry Mongolia

Oyunchimeg Dechinlhundev lives in the outskirts of Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar. She makes a living from raising chickens and geese, and…

3 years ago
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Future Food Depends On The Cutting Edge

This week, Australians across three states are mopping up after widespread flooding inundated vast areas. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has…

3 years ago
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Flood Warnings That Don’t Break The Banks

Globally, only extreme storms like hurricanes cause more damage than floods. Over the last 50 years, the global number of…

3 years ago
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4 Solutions To Floods In India And Bangladesh

Over a short period in May and June, intense rains lashed Assam, in northeastern India, and Bangladesh. As well as…

3 years ago
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Billionaires In Boats And Other Oddities

'Billionaires in boats' -- if you were to read this phrase on any given day, it would conjure images of…

3 years ago
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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 $5.6 trillion in losses to…

3 years ago

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