Quaking, 1108 aftershocks later

The Indian plate is underthrusting the Eurasian plate by 4 to 5 centimetres a year. But our scientists move even slower. Are they waiting for the …

How Phailin was different from super cyclone 1999

Improvements in weather forecasting and disaster preparedness, and lessons learnt from 1999, made all the difference

How to avert disasters

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

Science is a political orphan

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 …

Simply Put: Damning evidence against large dams

Simply Put: Joshimath gag order

Madhya Pradesh floods: death toll rises to 24; nearly 25,000 evacuated

Twenty-two of 51 districts in Madhya Pradesh have been affected by heavy rains

8 million deaths, economic losses amounting to $7 trillion due to disasters since 1900

Floods accounted for 60 per cent of the economic losses and nearly half of the deaths

2015 in toons

Many relief claims rejected

Action Alert

Years of agony

INDONESIA

Torrential Rain

Tremor-monitoring

Town quarantined

South Asia

Tsunami museum in Kerala

Bhopal: A Performance Protest

South Asia

Damage estimates for hurricanes like Dorian don’t capture the full cost of climate change-fueled disasters

Growth accounting incorporates the productive use of capital and innovation into the equation. The question we want to ask is what happens to GDP …

Look at disasters from a broader perspective, urges new report

It analyses past trends and says India has to be prepared for catastrophes even if they are not defined as natural disasters

Bihar canal collapse brings lack of dam safety in focus

A CAG report released in July found that less than 10 per cent dams had disaster management plans in place

Bhopal court issues direct summons to Dow Chemical in 1984 gas leak case

Following allegations of non-cooperation from US Department of Justice, a summon has been issued directly to Dow Chemical to appear in the court