Future shocks

Devastating earthquakes are waiting to strike India

Quick worker

Promising earthquake warning system tested

Toxic future

Drink this

Bhopal tragedy victims to get water supply 20 years too late

Betaine aldehyde oxidase

‘Permanently frozen’ Himalayan areas at severe drought risk due to global warming

Report warns of longer-lasting droughts than natural land, urban areas; Will result in less water for rivers

‘Climate crisis a universal reality’: Heaviest snowfall since 2005 halts life in J&K

Widespread damage, disruption reported from several parts of the UT; L-G declares heavy snowfall a state-specific natural calamity

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

Natural disasters may displace 22 mn by 2019 end: Report

More than 10 million people have been displaced between January and June 2019 due to extreme weather events and conflict and violence 

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

Natural, man-made disasters in 2017 led to economic losses worth $337 billion: study

The global loss due to natural and man-made disasters was double the 2016 mark, according to Swiss Re, a reinsurance firm

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 …

Cyclone Lehar weakens

Speed of the winds during landfall will be 70-80 km/hr as against 200 km/hr predicted earlier

Short-changed?

A petition filed by the Bhopal gas tragedy victims has prompted the Supreme Court to ask the Union government for an explanation. The discrepancy …

37 years of Bhopal gas tragedy: High Covid-19 fatality rate shows health impact of victims wasn't 'temporary'

Age-old questions resurface along with new ones in a novel campaign for justice

Learning from faults

An early 20th century US earthquake teaches lessons in tectonics

Earthquake in Odisha leaves one dead, many injured

About 34 villages of two districts in the state are tsunami prone

Uttarakhand disaster: experts recommend ban on new construction around Kedarnath temple

Setting up an advance warning system has also been suggested

Drought and livestock

INDUNDATED by excuses

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

IMPENDING DANGER

Cyclones in India

Flawed plans

India has little idea of how to clean up Bhopal