Cyclone rains may lead to floods from Hirakud

Activists say water level in dam reservoir dangerously high even after letting out water through sluice gates

Cyclone Nilofar: Gujarat initiates precautionary measures

Fishing community is being issued warnings by the state; port authorities are keeping a close watch

Phailin keeps migratory birds away from Chilika lake

Only 120,000 birds have congregated at the Nalabana sanctuary in Odisha this year

Phailin: crop loss assessed at Rs 2,300 crore

Families in severely affected villages to get rations and cash assistance

Relief and rehabilitation is next big challenge

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

Global Eco Watch: Reliance plans ‘largest zoo’ in Jamnagar

Down To Earth brings you the top happenings in the world of global ecology

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

Floods follow cyclone Phailin

Thousands of people are trapped in Balasore district, which is far from areas hit by cyclone

Tropical storm Hudhud: Odisha puts 16 districts on high alert

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

Odisha: ravaged by drought till September; cyclone, floods in October

Is it climate change?

Kolkata evicts ecological refugees

Seven hundred squatters occupying prime land rendered homeless; activists demanding their rehabilitation branded Maoists

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

Calls for preparing communities and locals for possible disasters

Mangroves may have saved this village from Phailin

Residents of Praharajpur say the mangrove forest they nurtured contained damage to the coastal village

Programme to insure Pacific island nations against natural disasters enters third season

The insurance cover is provided against earthquakes, tsunamis, and risk of tropical cyclones

22 million people displaced by natural disasters globally last year

Floods, storms and quakes displaced 19 million people in Asia alone

Southwest Monsoon 2020: Good rains now bring bad news

Excess rainfall in central India is the new normal as India grows warmer. This can also make locust attacks a perennial problem 

Phailin intensifies into 'super' cyclone

Storm winds moving at speed of over 200 km/hr head to districts that bore the brunt of 1999 super cyclone

Climate change worsened extreme weather events in 2022: State of the Global Climate report

More such events likely with rising greenhouse gas emissions and approaching El Niño

Weakened Lehar crosses Andhra coast at Machillipatnam

The very severe cyclonic storm lost its intensity by Thursday morning

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 …

Monsoon to hit Kerala coast on June 3

Cyclone Mahasen likely to increase intensity of rainfall over southern peninsula

Air pollution makes cyclones stronger: US study

Too early to say if pollution is the only factor responsible, says Indian scientist

2001-2010: Warmest decade on record

Climate change is happening now and is not some distant future event: World Meteorological Organization general secretary