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After Kalladi: Should Kerala rethink building a tunnel through its most fragile mountains?
Natural Disasters

After Kalladi: Should Kerala rethink building a tunnel through its most fragile mountains?

K A Shaji
6 min read
As state suspends work pending investigations, the disaster is forcing a fresh debate on whether large infrastructure projects can continue in increasingly unstable landscapes shaped by climate change
After weak June, monsoon revival brings extreme rainfall, flash floods, landslides
Natural Disasters

After weak June, monsoon revival brings extreme rainfall, flash floods, landslides

Akshit Sangomla
3 min read
Western disturbances during active monsoon conditions can lead to heavy to extremely heavy rainfall over northwest India
Kalladi landslide near Wayanad a disaster waiting to happen: Experts
Natural Disasters

Kalladi landslide in Wayanad a disaster waiting to happen: Experts

K A Shaji
6 min read
Project allowed despite warnings about tunneling in the fragile Western Ghats witnessing a changing climate, they say
Assam and Arunachal have remained rain-deficit in June. Yet they are flooded; here is how
Heavy rain batters Northeast, floods hit Assam; rain alerts issued across 20 states, Delhi set for heat relief
Screengrab from videos showing the destruction in Venezuela following the double earthquakes.
What exactly happened at the NEEPCO colony in Arunachal? Investigations on as flash flood claims one life, with four disappearances
Wangath Nullah, fed by two glacial lakes near the base of the iconic Harmukh Peak, flowing between the surrounding hills.
19 dead, 134 injured as 7.8 magnitude earthquake hits Southern Philippines
Dharali two and a half months following the disaster
Authorities containing forest fire in Mebo, Arunachal Pradesh in March.
Edge of survival
Hawaii records its most serious floods in 20 years
Thimphu will provide real time rainfall, river discharge data to West Bengal for facilitating timely flood forecast: Indo-Bhutanese high-level meeting decision
The upper catchment of the Rispana River is under threat due to muck obstructing its flow. On 16 September 2025, a muck slide triggered by heavy rainfall in the upper catchment buried a family in the downstream village of Makret.
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