Loss and damage from floods, storms cost India $7.6 bn in 2021: Report

Ocean warming could contribute to sea level rise, alter storm paths and ocean currents and increase stratification, the report warned

Run-up to COP27: Nigerians count losses as recurring floods ravage country

Annual floods adversely impact Nigerian farmers and will likely hamper the country’s food security in the next 3 months

Towards better adaptation: Global model to assess resilience to climate risks launched

The model will help countries focus on national adaptation investments

A third of deaths due to extreme events occurred in Africa over 50 years: WMO

Africa accounted for only one per cent of global economic losses due to weather, climate and water extremes in 50 years

Hurricane Ida turned into a monster thanks to a giant warm patch in the Gulf of Mexico — here’s what happened

Edies during the hurricane season can spell disaster for coastal communities around the Gulf

Barrier to cyclone storms: Odisha plans to plant mangroves along its coast

The proposal is to raise mangroves and casuarinas in around 109 and 4,000 hectares of land along the coastal belt

Cyclone Yaas: Landfall speed lower than predicted, but damage severe

At least 51 embankments in East Medinipur and 24 in South 24 Parganas were breached, CM Mamata Banerjee said 

Heat waves to follow in the wake of Amphan: IMD

Isolated areas in Gujarat, Rajasthan and Madhya Pradesh will suffer from heat waves between May 18 and May 22, it says

Cyclone Amphan could advance southwest monsoon over the Andamans: IMD

Expert sceptical over the advance of the monsoon over the Indian mainland

Coronavirus outbreak impacts Odisha: Migrant workers, tourism suffer

Thousands of Odisha's migrant workers go to west Asia to find work as plumbers

Bulbul damages crops, houses, electricity and water connections in Odisha

Though no death has been reported in the state, damage to property has been immense

Native tree species are climate resilient, maintain ecological balance

Introducing exotic species and promoting monoculture plantations in forest areas, village common lands have caused disastrous impacts on the …

This June may be second-most rain deficient in 7 years

This comes when the country has already been experiencing an extended dry spell since the end of last year’s monsoon season

Cyclone Vayu: NDRF teams evacuate people from 15 Gujarat districts

The very severe cyclonic storm is expected to hit the Gujarat coast on June 13 morning

There’s a cyclone coming to Mumbai, but it may not be bad news

Cyclone Vayu is expected to bring the mercury down in the coastal city with moderate rainfall

Cyclone Fani damages Odisha’s seaside Balukhanda Sanctuary

The deer that fled the cyclone into areas inland have begun to return

Fani to be second severe April cyclone to make landfall in India in 118 years

April storms are rare and are usually extremely severe; the last such storm, Cyclone Nargis, devastated Myanmar in 2008

For the survivors of 1999’s Super Cyclone in Odisha, polls mean nothing

None of the political parties in the state have provided them with amenities ranging from sources of livelihood to cyclone shelters to …

Why Tamil Nadu should be worried about 2 storms brewing in the western Pacific

Both storms are forming off the coast of Southeast Asia and could have an effect on weather conditions in the Bay of Bengal, affecting the Tamil …

IMD calls Titli, Luban cyclones “rarest of rare” occurrences

Cyclone Titli caused immense damage in Odisha and Andhra Pradesh despite several warnings

Cyclone Sagar kills 16, displaces thousands in Middle East, East Africa  

Cyclone Sagar, one of the rare ones to penetrate into western Gulf of Aden, was also the strongest tropical storm ever recorded in Somalia

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

Cyclone Hudhud: experience from Koraput

The storm damaged houses, crops and livestock of people in the tribal belt but government has not even taken note of it

COVID-19, Cyclone Amphan show how sex workers remain at receiving end

People tend to believe ‘other’ bodies, particularly of specific caste, class and religion, to be the source of risks. The story, …

Battered Odisha sounds Lehar alert

People in coastal areas who faced the fury of Phailin start stocking up provisions