Tamil Nadu stands guard as cyclone Nada approaches
Strong winds and heavy to very heavy rainfall is expected over coastal Tamil Nadu and Puducherry
Phailin cyclone: how severe?
Experts in the West say Phailin is category 5 tropical cyclone, and may prove to be more devastating than even Hurricane Katrina
Cyclone Gulaab: Heavy rain lashes West Bengal, 2 dead
Large swathes of land in Murshidabad, Nadia, Birbhum, Bankura and the coastal areas inundated
Odisha seaside villagers move to safe places as cyclone Amphan intensifies
Over 567 cyclone shelters and 7,092 buildings have been readied, claimed a state official
Plant 50 million mangroves in the Sundarbans? Improbable, say experts
Chief minister Mamata Banerjee had decided on the plantation to compensate for plants lost during Cyclone Amphan
Most internal displacement in East Africa’s Burundi due to rise of Lake Tanganyika
Hundreds of displaced families surveyed said they have no hope of returning home
Assam floods 2023: Around 34,000 people affected; IMD predicts heavy rain for next 5 days
Assam gets 2,818 millimetres of rainfall in a year and has received nearly 10 per cent of the rains in the last 10 days
Cyclone Biporjoy likely to make landfall in Gujarat; what is unusual about it?
Biporjoy is unusual because most models could not predict that it would intensify into an extremely severe cyclonic storm
Cyclone Mocha largely spares Bangladesh but not Myanmar; detailed damage not known yet
Rohingya refugees around Cox’s Bazar saved; but not those in camps of Sittwe city
Mocha: Cyclone intensification may not be very high since it will be formed in heart of the Bay, say experts
Experts are treading cautiously about path Mocha will take; it depends on storm’s recurve, they say
Cyclone Freddy travelled from Australia to batter Madagascar, one of the most climate-vulnerable nations
The world’s fourth-largest island is suffering a drought since 2018; cyclones and also the first famine caused by climate change
Coastal erosion: India’s coasts are being damaged; here is how
More than a third of India's coastline that is spread across 6,907 km, witnessed some degree of erosion between 1990 and 2018. West Bengal is the …
Lessons from Tauktae: Can extreme weather help with rainwater harvesting?
Cyclone Tauktae that crossed Gujarat as an ‘extremely severe cyclonic storm’, caused heavy rainfall in semi-arid places
Jagatsinghpur, Kendrapara prepare for Cyclone Bulbul
Expect landfall in two Odisha districts on November 8-9
Fani damaged betel vineyards in Odisha
The natural disaster, which claimed over 40 lives, has caused huge losses to around 8,000 paan farmers across Odisha’s …
Cyclone Titli weakens after damaging crop, infrastructure
Several places in Odisha have received more than 100 mm rainfall and more is expected
A K Ghosh, voice of people of Sundarbans, passes away at 81
The renowned environmentalist also researched on the effects of climate change and extreme weather events on people’s lives
Tropical thunderstorms are set to grow stronger as the world warms
The amount of atmospheric energy available to thunderstorms will increase in response to climate change
Facing disasters: lessons from a Bangladeshi island
To save lives, resiliency plans must understand how locals in climate-vulnerable places assess risk.
Monsoon 2020: Rains advance over Peninsular India from June 1-7
India received 70% more rains during this week than it usually does at this time
Two cyclones and a gas leak: Journey of migrants between urban precariousness and ravaged villages
A report narrates the story of three migrants from Assam and West Bengal who have been uprooted from their hometowns by extreme climate events or …
‘Less atmospheric aerosol may have intensified Cyclone Amphan’
Low concentration of aerosols due to COVID-19 pandemic strengthened Amphan, said experts. Aerosols weaken an existing tropical cyclone by …
Tropical storm Hudhud set to intensify further today
Intensification expected to surpass forecasts given by different agencies and weather models
Haiyan to Lehar: how storms around the world are named
Phailin, Helen, Haiyan, Lehar and the rest get their names from a list specific to their region
Bad weather ahead for Bay of Bengal, but how bad will it get?
The flip-flops over a new system brewing to India’s east show that our best climate models are playing catch up with weather systems in a …