Sharad Chandra, director, flood forecast monitoring division, Central Water Commission, spoke to DTE on increasing instances of urban flooding
‘There is no reliable prediction of size and place of earthquake’
‘Internationally, core weather forecasting is always done by national weather services’
Pacific heatwave: ‘More research needed to find what causes this’
'Global warming has enhanced the impact of heatwaves'
Jane Baldwin, a climate researcher at Princeton University, USA, spoke to Down To Earth on what enhances the frequency ...
‘Every flood in Nepal causes deluge in India’
Narayan Gyawali, program director with Lutheran World Relief that’s working in Nepal, speaks to Down To Earth about trans-boundary ...
Effluent treatment plants have not proved effective
Tishya Chatterjee , member secretary, Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) spoke to Manish Tiwari ...
Johan von Schreeb on humanitarian aid
Johan Von Schreeb, a surgeon who has worked for the group Medicins Sans Frontieres, is a public ...
Flash floods are man-made
Environmental geologist K S Valdiya lives in Uttarakhand and keeps a tab on the changing geological processes in the ...
'Himalayan region will have earthquakes greater than magnitude 8 in the future'
Interview with Rebecca Bendick, Geologist and Professor at the department of geosciences in the University of Montana
`We are teetering at the edge of a new era'
It is very hard to understand why we do not seem to grasp the immensity and urgency of climate ...