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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 …

Why are flood-prone states slacking in policy implementation

Most states have not identified or demarcated affected areas in spite of recommendations by multiple committees

Prioritising people

Overwhelming negative response towards the World Bank-sponsored Flood management plan to be implemented in Bangladesh, saw the government and …

Cyclonic disturbance threatens crops, population in Odisha

Hilly areas are likely to face landslides and damage to kutcha roads and houses

Simply Put: Boat-life, not lifeboat

The embankment war

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Devastating glacial lake outburst causes flash floods in Sikkim

At least 30 people have been reported missing in flash floods and six bridges have been washed away between Chumthang and Rangpo

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,…

Can Chennai’s city disaster plan ensure resilient future?

Though cyclones and floods are routinely visiting Tamil Nadu every December, disaster risk reduction concerns have not been integrated into the …

Victims of denial

The United States was hit by 10 hurricanes in a span of two months, even as their President fails to acknowledge the problems from changing …

Doomed dam

A five-year-long protest in France resulted in a major victory for conservationists, with the government being forced to abandon plans to build a dam.

Major embankment repair works delayed in Bihar

Some of them awaiting nod of Ganga Flood Control 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 …

Kerala lacks a flood warning system: Government official

Heavy flood and hailstorm in Jordan: One dead, teen missing

Atmospheric instability behind flash floods in the arid country