Early in 2023, monsoon rains hit hard in Nepal’s Koshi Province. The cascading nature of the flood damaged hydropower infrastructure…
According to a World Economic Forum (WEF) report published recently, climate change threatens to cause an additional 14.5 million deaths…
It’s unlikely any region of the world will escape the effects of climate change. These include increasing temperatures, more frequent and…
The recently-released Climate India 2023 report by Down to Earth paints a grim picture of the nation grappling with extreme…
When a spike of rainfall hit the Indian state of Uttarakhand from early July to late August 2023, the town…
When parts of Delhi were inundated with floodwaters several meters high in early July, several reports said that the river…
Floods in Delhi have dominated the news cycle in India for the last week, setting off political conflicts, and an…
Source: PTI The devastating floods that occurred in the country between 1985 and 2020 during the summer monsoon season were…
On a January evening, standing on the precincts of the ancient Shree Dattatraya Temple, about 200 metres from the Kajli…
Every year, residents of Bhagwatipur in southern Nepal struggle to sleep during the monsoon. Between June and September, this village…
Source: AP As glaciers melt and pour massive amounts of water into nearby lakes, 15 million people across the globe…
(Source: PTI) Rebuilding homes, besides helping children and livestock adjust to a new place, as floods turn them into refugees…
Climate change is destabilising the freshwater supply on which all life depends. Multiple disasters in 2022 drove home the point…
Asian countries are highly vulnerable to the impacts of climate change. In 2022, the damage across the region from catastrophes…
Communities are being pushed into a reckoning onset by climate change — adapt their way of living to mitigate flood…
Oyunchimeg Dechinlhundev lives in the outskirts of Mongolia’s capital, Ulaanbaatar. She makes a living from raising chickens and geese, and…
This week, Australians across three states are mopping up after widespread flooding inundated vast areas. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has…
Globally, only extreme storms like hurricanes cause more damage than floods. Over the last 50 years, the global number of…
Over a short period in May and June, intense rains lashed Assam, in northeastern India, and Bangladesh. As well as…
'Billionaires in boats' -- if you were to read this phrase on any given day, it would conjure images of…
Worsening droughts, storms and torrential rain in some of the world's largest economies could cause $5.6 trillion in losses to…
Himanshu Pegu, a resident of Silchar in India’s northeastern Assam state, is one of many forced to live in a…
On 22 June this year, the government declared a flood alarm in the Kashmir valley, after water levels rose at Sangam…
Heavy rain combined with melting snow can be a destructive combination. In mid-June 2022, storms dumped up to 5 inches…
The first half of 2022 has seen South Asia hit by both severe heatwaves and heavy flooding. The latest flashpoints…
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