What India should do to tackle climate impacts

All development programmes need to incorporate features to tackle climate change risks and act locally

On road to recovery

Nepal has banned new constructions till it formulates a fresh building code. Emerging threat of landslides compounds its troubles

Severe cyclone strikes Odisha

It will continue ravage the coastal districts till early morning; scale of devastation will be known by late Sunday morning

Welcome to cyber city

Computers cannot prevent floods -- a lesson that the Internet-savvy chief minister of Andhra Pradesh is learning the hard way

After cyclone Phailin, villages face flood fury

People deny receiving any supply materials, aid

Spate of neglect

We still have to reach the interiors

W Selvamurthy, senior scientist at the Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO), shrugs off the body’s responsibility towards …

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022: Challenges in building resilience & way forward

Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction 2022 held in Bali in May 2022 offered solutions

Resort to heritage

Bangladesh is betting big on its traditional form of farming: floating gardens. Can it help climate-proof the country?

At least 25 dead in Bihar in wake of Nepal earthquake

Districts in Kosi belt, closest to Nepal, bear the brunt of tremors arising from Himalayan nation

Hudhud ravages Vizag, kills three in Andhra Pradesh

Evacuation of people to safer areas helped minimise casualty

Risky slope: What makes Dharamshala vulnerable to landslides

Anthropogenic pressure adds to high risk of earthquakes in this Himachal city

How to avert disasters

Orissa cyclone death toll was higher due to the destruction of mangrove forests

Science is a political orphan

Guidelines to manage chemical disasters

Leh’s labour lost

Half-built houses, no labourers. Winter threatens to be harsh

Old ‘Temples of Modern India’: Can India decommission ageing dams it has been warned about?

Dams have affected new ways of land use and life so much that many societies cannot think of a life beyond them anymore

World Bank to lend Sri Lanka US $100 million for building climate resilience

The island nation has also signed an agreement for a loan of up to US $102 million in case of a natural disaster is declared an emergency

After 7.9 shock

The earthquake that shook Nepal and northern India underscores the urgency to understand the seismicity of the Himalayas and to improve the …

“The climate crisis is here and now”

Increasing risk of extreme weather has made it easier to have conversations on environment in El Salvador, the country’s minister of …

Hudhud death toll mounts to 35

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

Marathwada's dry story

How poor policies pushed the region into one of its worst droughts ever

Flood situation worsens in Bihar

Rivers flow above danger mark; fear of floods in Patna

No two droughts are alike

Shaken and stirred

Report focuses on Orissa cyclone's mind-jolting fallout