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Minutes that save lives: Inside India’s tsunami early warning system

Minutes that save lives: Inside India’s tsunami early warning system

Praveen Sakalya

26 Dec 2025

3 min read

The 9th National Lightning Conference was held at Prithvi Bhavan in New Delhi on December 22, 2025.

Lightning an understated disaster in India: Experts call for deeper understanding of atmospheric electricity

Akshit Sangomla

23 Dec 2025

4 min read

Disaster after disaster: do we have enough raw materials to ‘build back better’?

Disaster after disaster: do we have enough raw materials to ‘build back better’?

Missaka Nandalochana Hettiarachchi

22 Dec 2025

4 min read

News

The 9th National Lightning Conference was held at Prithvi Bhavan in New Delhi on December 22, 2025.

Lightning an understated disaster in India: Experts call for deeper understanding of atmospheric electricity

Akshit Sangomla

23 Dec 2025

4 min read

A Punjab farmer surveys the ruins of his fields after the August 2025 floods.

Year of extremes: India hit by disasters on 331 of 334 days in 2025, up from 295 in 2024 and 292 in 2022

18 Dec 2025

6 min read

Tapanuli orangutan (Pongo tapanuliensis)

Scientists warn Cyclone Senyar may have pushed Tapanuli orangutan closer to extinction

Himanshu Nitnaware

12 Dec 2025

3 min read

A ward that vanished: Mundakkai, the village that Kerala lost

A ward that vanished: Mundakkai, the village that Kerala lost

06 Dec 2025

4 min read

Death and devastation: Why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard

Death and devastation: Why a rare equatorial cyclone and other storms have hit southern Asia so hard

01 Dec 2025

4 min read

Cyclone Ditwa may rapidly intensify, bring heavy rainfall to eastern Indian coast

Cyclone Ditwah may rapidly intensify, bring heavy rainfall to eastern coast of India

Akshit Sangomla

27 Nov 2025

2 min read

Sikkim going all out to prepare for disasters in times of climate change

Sikkim ramps up disaster preparedness as Eastern Himalayas warm

Deepanwita Gita Niyogi

27 Nov 2025

4 min read

Multiple cyclonic storms with rare Fujiwhara interaction likely in Bay of Bengal

Multiple cyclonic storms with rare Fujiwhara interaction likely in Bay of Bengal

Akshit Sangomla

24 Nov 2025

3 min read

‘We are known as abaca capital of Philippines, but typhoons keep destroying everything’

Philippines twin typhoons expose abyss between funds proposed & actual need for loss & damage

Akshit Sangomla

13 Nov 2025

5 min read

Screengrab from a video shared by Jamaican Member of Parliament Floyd Green on social media shows the devastation caused by Hurricane Melissa.

UNEP’s Adaptation Gap Report 2025 warns of deepening crisis as Jamaica reels from Hurricane Melissa

Akshit Sangomla

29 Oct 2025

4 min read

A scene of devastation in Phali Laga Sauntonola village in Chamoli district, Uttarakhand.

Uttarakhand relocation crisis: Villages devastated by rain and buried under rubble

27 Oct 2025

4 min read

Forecast track of low-pressure area over southeast Bay of Bengal

Cyclone brewing in Bay of Bengal as post-monsoon storm season begins

24 Oct 2025

2 min read

Interviews

Swapnamita C Vaideswaran

‘We cannot develop the mountains like plains’

Dakshiani Palicha

17 Sep 2025

7 min read

There is no end to preparing for extreme weather events in the Himalayas: Sonam Lotus

There is no end to preparing for extreme weather events in the Himalayas: Sonam Lotus

27 Aug 2025

2 min read

‘The government has invited these Himalayan disasters’

‘The government has invited these Himalayan disasters’

18 Aug 2025

5 min read

Myanmar’s current socio-political turmoil may result in delay of aid for quake affected victims; inequality and discrimination may aggravate situation: Surya Parkash

Myanmar’s current socio-political turmoil may result in delay of aid for quake affected victims; inequality and discrimination may aggravate situation: Surya Parkash

31 Mar 2025

2 min read

The Sagaing Fault triggered the March 28 Myanmar quake as it had accumulated a lot of energy: O P Mishra

The Sagaing Fault triggered the March 28 Myanmar quake as it had accumulated a lot of energy: O P Mishra

29 Mar 2025

3 min read

Too much fossil fuel usage, irresponsible development models has resulted in topsoil erosion in Western Ghats: Kalkuli Vittal Hegde

Too much fossil fuel usage, irresponsible development models have resulted in topsoil erosion in Western Ghats: Kalkuli Vittal Hegde

31 Aug 2024

4 min read

Blogs

Minutes that save lives: Inside India’s tsunami early warning system

Minutes that save lives: Inside India’s tsunami early warning system

Praveen Sakalya

26 Dec 2025

3 min read

Disaster after disaster: do we have enough raw materials to ‘build back better’?

Disaster after disaster: do we have enough raw materials to ‘build back better’?

Missaka Nandalochana Hettiarachchi

22 Dec 2025

4 min read

When disaster becomes a festival: Rethinking media coverage of the Wayanad landslide

When disaster becomes a festival: Rethinking media coverage of the Wayanad landslide

Anto P Cheerotha

20 Dec 2025

3 min read

2025’s extreme weather had the jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes

2025’s extreme weather had the jet stream’s fingerprints all over it, from flash floods to hurricanes

16 Dec 2025

5 min read

Warm oceans seem to be turning even ‘weak’ cyclones into deadly rainmakers

Warm oceans seem to be turning even ‘weak’ cyclones into deadly rainmakers

09 Dec 2025

4 min read

Flooding in Houston after Hurricane Beryl in 2024.

The housing crisis is forcing Americans to choose between affordability and safety

05 Dec 2025

4 min read

True forest fire management must begin not with extinguishing flames, but with understanding the people who light them

True forest fire management must begin not with extinguishing flames, but with understanding the people who light them

13 Nov 2025

8 min read

No time to recover: Hurricane Melissa and the Caribbean’s compounding disaster trap as the storms keep coming

No time to recover: Hurricane Melissa and the Caribbean’s compounding disaster trap as the storms keep coming

13 Nov 2025

5 min read

Videos

Ash from Ethiopia’s 12,000-Year dormant volcano drifts into India

Ash from Ethiopia’s 12,000-Year dormant volcano drifts into India

The cloud has led to flight cancellations, advisories from the aviation ministry, and warnings from meteorological officials, even as the plume continues drifting toward China

27 Nov 2025

1 min read

DTE Ground report from the sodden fields of Punjab

DTE Ground report from the sodden fields of Punjab

15 Oct 2025

Torrential rains trigger deadly floods and landslides in Darjeeling and Nepal

Torrential rains trigger deadly floods and landslides in Darjeeling and Nepal

08 Oct 2025

1 min read

Uttarakhand floods: Debris crushes Chamoli villages, rescue ops underway

Uttarakhand floods: Debris crushes Chamoli villages, rescue ops underway

19 Sep 2025

2 min read

400% increase in lightning strikes across India: New climate threat emerges

400% increase in lightning strikes across India: New climate threat emerges

16 Sep 2025

1 min read

Punjab Floods 2025: Relief measures & climate change impact

Punjab Floods 2025: Relief measures & climate change impact

13 Sep 2025

1 min read

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