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Natural Disasters
A striking trend
Sanjay Srivastava
12 Sep 2025
3 min read
India has seen a 400% per cent rise in lightning strikes in the past five years
Natural Disasters
These seven questions need to be asked in the aftermath of the 2025 Punjab Floods
Harinder Happy
12 Sep 2025
6 min read
The current situation indicates that this disaster was not purely natural, but also a result of human negligence and government failure
Natural Disasters
The recent floods in Punjab are proof that its youth are neither ‘idle’ nor ‘reckless’
Gian Singh
11 Sep 2025
6 min read
To harness their potential, the false propaganda against them must be stopped, and they must be protected from the exploitative stranglehold that suffocates their progress
The 2025 Punjab floods are a sum total of extreme rain, weak embankments, floodplain encroachment and obstruction of natural drainage
Sucha Singh
06 Sep 2025
5 min read
Mismanagement of three major dams — Bhakra, Pong and Ranjit Sagar — worsened the 2025 Punjab Floods
Himanshu Thakkar
05 Sep 2025
8 min read
There is a legal flaw at the root of the Punjab floods
Amandeep Sandhu
05 Sep 2025
3 min read
Punjab is a land of rivers. But the floods of this year are not purely natural events
Gurinder Kaur
05 Sep 2025
5 min read
Why was the Afghanistan earthquake so deadly? A disaster resilience expert explains
Iftekhar Ahmed
02 Sep 2025
3 min read
Dharali and Chashoti show the great havoc that small streams in the Himalayas can cause
Jay Singh Rawat
01 Sep 2025
4 min read
Rising disasters in the Himalayas: A wake-up call for a new political agenda
Tikender Singh Panwar
22 Aug 2025
5 min read
Dharali is an indicator of a Himalayan crisis that needs urgent national attention
Anil Prakash Joshi
12 Aug 2025
3 min read
Lesson from Dharali: Do not cross the limits of nature
Chandrashekhar Tewari
12 Aug 2025
4 min read
The Himalayas are becoming monsoon graveyards
Akshay Deoras
07 Aug 2025
2 min read
Why the Pacific tsunami was smaller than expected — a geologist explains
Alan Dykes
31 Jul 2025
3 min read
Lower revenues, pricier loans: how flooding in Europe affects firms and the financial system they depend on
Serena Fatica
23 Jun 2025
4 min read
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