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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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

2 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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 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…

3 years ago
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Floods In Western, Southern India Kill 40, Damage Crops

Floods brought by heavy rains and overflowing rivers across large swathes of western and southern India have killed at least…

4 years ago
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Floods, Covid-19 Hobble 2 Of India’s Poorest States

Floods caused by heavy monsoon rains in two of India’s poorest states have displaced or affected 8 million people and…

4 years ago
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Floods Kill Scores In Assam, 9 Rhinos Drown

Intense rain and floods in Assam have killed at least 84 people and displaced more than 2.75 million since May,…

4 years ago
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Death Toll From Floods Rises To 95, Hundreds Of Thousands Evacuated

The death toll from floods in Karnataka, Kerala and Maharashtra rose to 95, official figures showed on Saturday, as heavy…

5 years ago

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