How early warning systems helped get funds for Nepal's flood-prone Terai region
Community-based flood early warning systems (CBFEWS) have been particularly successful in relaying crucial flood risk information
Floods in Nigeria: Building dams and planting trees among steps that should be taken to curb the damage
Some of the principal causes of flooding in Nigeria are rapid urbanisation, poor spatial planning and poor solid waste management
Heavy rain alert in Mumbai this weekend; how prepared is the city?
Storm water drains are being cleaned; Mithi river has been widened, but flood sensors are yet to be installed in five rivers and two lakes
Pakistan’s mountain communities brace for flash floods
Early warning systems and better weather forecasting have become a matter of life and death for communities facing more frequent and intense …
India lost more than 70,000 people because of climate change-related disasters
A new report by an international thinktank Germanwatch has some bad news for India. It says that between 1998 and 2017, India lost, on an average,…
It’ll take Assam 943 years to protect itself from floods at current pace of adaptation measures
Flood-prone Bihar, Uttar Pradesh and Meghalaya will need 966, 935 & 996 years respectively
Expert committee sheds light on Bihar’s mounting silt crisis
A central government committee recommends removal of silt along the Ganga in Bihar to reduce flood risks and boost shipping, but will a committee …
What happened to India’s flood management plan?
There is no national-level flood control authority in India — 43 years after the country’s first and last commission …
Kosi: How ‘Bihar’s sorrow’ moulds villages across her vast fan, year after year
People from the most influential castes and classes occupy the central and safest space in the village, while those from lower castes are …
Loss and damage from floods, storms cost India $7.6 bn in 2021: Report
Ocean warming could contribute to sea level rise, alter storm paths and ocean currents and increase stratification, the report warned
Loss and damage: Who is responsible when climate change harms world’s poorest countries?
Countries in Africa have some of the lowest national greenhouse gas emissions, and yet the continent is home to many of the world’s …
Is it climate crisis that fuelled flooding in Pakistan?
Sindh and Balochistan provinces of the country have received more rainfall than the historical normal in August
Another year, another mismanaged flood response in Assam
As floods ravage Assam and other north-eastern states in India, failed promises by politicians to deal with floods come under close scrutiny
North India Deluge 2023: A water plan addressing urban floods can pull Chandigarh out of troubled waters
Rainwater harvesting structures along the stormwater drains will enable the use of rainwater endowment along with preventing floods
Most Asia-Pacific countries ill-prepared for natural disasters: ESCAP
Over the past 60 years, temperatures in the region have increased faster than the global mean
2022 too short, too far: A year of disasters
Down To Earth recaps the primary environment, health and developmental news from 2022
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (November 10, 2022)
Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal
COVID-19, floods: Bihar stares at twin challenge with onset of monsoon
Bihar Chief Secretary Deepak Kumar held a meeting with top officials on June 10 to review preparedness measures
Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (February 13, 2023)
Nigeria floods: Expert insights into why they’re so devastating and what to do about them
Over 1.4 million people have been displaced, 500 died, thousands injured in floods in Nigeria
Chennai needs an adaptive governance model to tackle climate change risks
Chennai needs continuous efforts to build the capacity of communities as well as existing institutions to enhance its resilience
Hundreds of families displaced in north Bihar as swollen rivers break their banks
Koshi, Gandak, Bagmati, Mahananda, Ganga and Adhwara flowing above danger mark at several places; Farmers in the state who were waiting for rains …
Slippery slopes: Why the Auckland storm caused so many landslides and what can be done about it
While climate change and the warming of oceans that pump-prime extreme weather events are certainly pressing issues, changing land use is also of …
Floods threaten wildlife at VTR, Bihar’s sole tiger reserve
Floodwaters entered the low-lying areas of VTR following heavy rainfall in catchment areas of Gandak river in Nepal in the last 48 hours
Climate change is already putting the heat on insurance companies — Auckland’s floods could be a turning point
Around 5,000 homes were damaged across 25 suburbs, with more than 100 properties declared uninhabitable in the aftermath of the storm