Medieval descriptions of an 1114 CE quake in present-day Turkey and Syria feel eerily familiar

Even at a distance of 900 years, accounts of the 1114 earthquake reveal historical societies went about recording natural disasters in terms that …

Odisha authorities keep vigil though Cyclone Asani to skirt coast

Officials have established a control room and are monitoring the movements of the cyclone

Nairobi Declaration set to fast track disaster risk reduction work

Sendai Framework aims to substantially reduce disaster risk and losses in lives and livelihoods 

Odisha’s tourism sector hit by Cyclone Fani

The cyclone hit Odisha coast at a time when large number of tourists were expected to flock to the state

What makes 2017 Atlantic hurricane season unprecedented?

Tropical cyclones like hurricanes and typhoons are changing character due to global warming. Not only are they becoming more frequent, wind …

Lok Sabha discusses losses due to natural calamities since 2012

Only 59 per cent of the funds allocated for relief operations were actually released in 2015 as compared to 77 per cent in 2012

Earth-shaking intervention

An earthquake rocks El Salvador causing widespread destruction. Deforestation aggravates the situation

Learning from the Gujarat quake

It is more than two years since the terrible earthquake struck Gujarat. In this period the catastrophe-struck areas have witnessed rehabilitation …

Hamoon: Odisha prepares for brewing cyclonic storm; sends out warnings to farmers, fisherfolk

Light to moderate rain is likely to lash the coastal districts of Odisha

India gets World Bank credit to mitigate cyclones

Bank to extend US $412.4 million for capacity building in eight coastal states

UN reviews road safety plan

India struggles to clear its image of being the accident capital of the world

Trunks from houses

For a change

South Bengal ravaged by Cyclone Amphan

Around 10-12 people may have died and property worth a lakh crore rupees destroyed, Mamata Banerjee tells reporters 

Is India heading for a deadly spell of heatwave again?

Amid forecast of a record-breaking warm year, the India Meteorological Department warns of a warmer than normal summer

Struck by ‘swarm’ of tremors, Palghar’s woes keep escalating

Villagers in Maharashtra’s Palghar district claim repeat tremors, government apathy have left them in the lurch

Deadly dam burst in Brazil puts mining company under scanner

Brazil’s Federal Police accuse mining company Samarco of wilful misconduct in relation to a deadly dam burst in November 2015

Raining troubles

Little-understood western disturbances have been blamed for most of the freak weather events in India in the past decade. With 50 per cent of its …

Uttarakhand disaster was result of extreme rains and haphazard development: report

National Institute of Disaster Management suggests guidelines and action plans for development activities after compilation of comprehensive data

Learning from faults

An early 20th century US earthquake teaches lessons in tectonics

Drought and livestock

INDUNDATED by excuses

Mass-migrations remain the only way out for Bihar's flood-affected people

IMPENDING DANGER

Cyclones in India

'Aila was imperialist design'