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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…

4 weeks 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…

4 months ago
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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…

4 months ago
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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…

5 months 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…

7 months 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…

10 months 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…

10 months 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

1 year 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 years ago
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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 forced to live in a…

2 years ago
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Kashmir’s Flood Management Plan Faces Flak

On 22 June this year, the government declared a flood alarm in the Kashmir valley, after water levels rose at Sangam…

2 years ago
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Climate Change Is Making Flooding Worse

Heavy rain combined with melting snow can be a destructive combination. In mid-June 2022, storms dumped up to 5 inches…

2 years ago
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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 heavy flooding. The latest flashpoints…

2 years ago

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