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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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 years ago
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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 relentless rain and subsequent landslides…

3 years ago
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Floods In Assam Lead To Massive Destruction, Cripple Life

On the edge of the National Highway 31 in Assam, where floodwater had completely submerged the paddy fields, 43-year-old Rahisuddin…

3 years ago
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Floods: Millions Marooned In India, B’desh

Floodwaters inundated more of Bangladesh and northeast India on Tuesday, officials said, as authorities struggled to reach more than 9.5…

3 years ago
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How Will We Live With Limited Freshwater?

The best of traditional and modern approaches can support each other to avoid droughts becoming disasters. Human-caused climate change seems…

3 years ago
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Flood Situation Critical In Assam, Other States

The flood situation in the northeast took a turn for the worse on Friday as incessant rainfall pounded parts of…

3 years ago
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Floods Disrupt Monsoon Weddings In Bihar

The monsoon rains had doused the brutal summer heatwave, and the season of fertility and hope had started in north…

3 years ago
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Walking In The Shadow Of MP’s Massive Floods

Bundelkhand, a region shared by the massive Indian states of Uttar Pradesh and Madhya Pradesh, is often in the news…

4 years ago
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Twin Crises Of Heat & Floods Expose Neglect

Rains over the weekend brought some relief from a sweltering heatwave to northern India, but temperatures are projected to rise…

4 years ago
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Climate Change Is Making Floods Worse Too

Super cyclones, known as hurricanes or typhoons in different parts of the world, are among the most destructive weather events…

4 years ago
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How To Survive A Heatwave

On colour-coded temperature charts, the Indian subcontinent is currently a sickly mauve. An unusually intense heatwave is threatening millions of…

4 years ago
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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. He is from the village…

4 years ago
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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 foothills of the Himalayas. “A…

4 years ago
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Bihar: Women, Floods And Increasing Violence

After devastating floods struck the northeastern Indian state of Bihar in August 2017, the country’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, conducted…

4 years ago
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Climate Change & Disasters On The Third Pole

In many ways, 2021 marked a new threshold for climate change-related disasters. Global headlines were monopolised by incidents of extreme…

4 years ago
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MPs Make A Start In Understanding Rivers

The Indian Parliamentary Standing Committee report on water resources released on 3 August looks at water issues from the lens…

4 years ago
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In Assam, Village Committees Lead The Way During Floods

Over the past three decades, the severity of both droughts and floods has increased in the state of Assam. In…

4 years ago
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Stilt Houses Help People Withstand Floods In Assam

Ratan Pathuri watches floodwater swirl below his veranda. The swollen Dhansiri River has inundated Pathuri’s village, Nikori, in the district…

4 years ago
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Heavy Rains Unleash Havoc In West, South India

A total of 129 people have died in rain-related incidents in Maharashtra in 48 hours, a senior state disaster management…

4 years ago
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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 90 on Friday, as the…

4 years ago
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Bihar Farmers Protest Flood Embankments To Save Livelihoods

Days before the monsoon hits the eastern Indian state of Bihar, farmers wait for rains and floods with trepidation. This…

4 years ago
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Clear Impact Of Climate Change In Uttarakhand Disaster

Under the weight of a suspected avalanche, a massive chunk of ice and frozen mud broke away from a glacier…

5 years ago

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