‘Hudhud may develop into a very severe cyclonic storm’

Mahesh Palawat, chief meteorologist at Skymet, a private weather forecast agency, speaks to Kanika Kumria on how Hudhud developed, its likely …

Mangroves shield coastal villages from cyclones

As Odisha braces for super cyclone Phailin, a coastal village hopes the mangrove it nurtured will protect their homes

Vanishing islands of Bangladesh

Frequent natural disasters continue to inundate and erode many islands in the 'climate impact hot spot'

Cyclone Helen moves northwards

It might make a landfall near Machillipatnam

Cyclone hudhud impact: lower Assam flooded with hilsa

Fishers makes windfall gain as Brahmaputra river and several of its channels get swamped with much sought after variety of fish

Phailin, floods, now government apathy

People wait for food, water, medical aid, and assistance to rebuild homes

As Hudhud approaches, coastal people move to safer areas

Many people hit by Phailin last year yet to overcome food and water shortages, find source of livelihood

Historically prone to cyclones

26 of the 35 deadliest tropical cyclones in world history have been Bay of Bengal storms

Odisha braces for cyclone Phailin

People in vulnerable villages in coastal districts are being evacuated to safe areas, cyclone shelters

Hudhud: Modi announces Rs 1,000 crore interim aid for Andhra Pradesh

State assesses initial damage assessed at over Rs 43,000 crore, excluding crop damage

Hudhud causes heavy rains across Chhattisgarh

Extensive agricultural damage expected

Hudhud ravages Vizag, kills three in Andhra Pradesh

Evacuation of people to safer areas helped minimise casualty

Hudhud death toll mounts to 35

Almost 250,000 people affected; more than 144,000 hectares of crop damaged

PM Modi to visit cyclone-affected Visakhapatnam on Tuesday

Andhra chief minister asks the Centre to declare cyclone ‘national calamity’

Relief and rehabilitation is next big challenge

Cyclone Phailin leaves behind a trail of destruction; people complain they have received no relief supply

Dumping garbage in rivers is now a crime in Maharashtra

Bombay High Court orders municipalities to register cases and take action against anyone who violates the law

Green tribunal bans quarrying in Sariska

Forest department found 84 stone and marble quarries operating within the tiger reserve and its buffer zone

Mass evacuation on in coastal districts

All two-storey government and NGO buildings, schools and colleges declared cyclone shelters

Tropical storm Hudhud: Odisha puts 16 districts on high alert

Residents of seaside villages start moving to safer areas; stock up rations

Urbanisation making us more susceptible to natural disasters, says global report

Calls for preparing communities and locals for possible disasters

Cyclones and climate change

Some climate models predict two- to seven- fold increase in the frequency of Hurricane Katrina magnitude events for a 1°C rise in global …

One person is displaced every second by disasters

The Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC) estimates that disasters forced more than 19.3 million people in 100 countries to flee their …

Indian states in the grip of floods; 400,000 people affected

In just one week, flooding in multiple states has caused at least 32 deaths

Andhra Pradesh struck by over 60 cyclones in four decades

More than one cyclone in the same season is not unusual for the state

‘Climate change responsible for destruction caused by cyclone Pam’

South Pacific’s worst cyclone ever leaves world’s poorest state devastated