Cyclone Dana

Mangroves can mitigate cyclones and floods in Eastern India, especially Odisha and West Bengal
Natural Disasters

Mangroves can mitigate cyclones and floods in Eastern India, especially Odisha and West Bengal

Debabrat Patra
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Different stakeholders including governments, civil society and local communities should come together in preserving mangroves and generating new plantations in coastal regions
Cyclone Fengal: Depression intensifies into ‘deep depression’, cyclone formation expected by November 27
Climate Change

Fengal: System intensifies into ‘deep depression’, cyclone formation expected by November 27

DTE Staff
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Cyclone Fengal is expected to make a landfall at Tamil Nadu’s coast by the end of this week
Although cyclone Dana made landfall in Odisha, it caused heavy rainfall in West Bengal because of being trapped between two anticyclones. Forecasters were unable to predict this rare phenomenon, which altered the cyclone’s path, largely due to the insufficient monitoring instruments along and around India’s coast
Natural Disasters

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Akshit Sangomla
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The precision of cyclone forecasts in India is hampered by limited and outdated monitoring instruments
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