Surviving deadly storms that wreaked havoc in Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh

Between May 2 and May 3, intense dust storm and thunderstorm killed at least 124 people in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh and Punjab and injured more …

'Global warming has enhanced the impact of heatwaves'

Jane Baldwin, a climate researcher at Princeton University, USA, spoke to Down To Earth on what enhances the frequency and intensity of heatwaves

Cyclone Fani: Winds of change

Warming oceans are altering global wind systems, which have either slowed down or changed directions. The result: weather events including …

Reality of floods

Rivers breached danger mark, lakhs of hectares of standing crops were destroyed and millions were displaced. It's time we stepped back and …

A volcano is erupting again in Iceland. Is climate change causing more eruptions?

Magma generation beneath Iceland is already increasing due to a warming climate and melting glaciers

Taal volcano creates emergency in the Philippines

Taal is located 60 kilometres south of Manila, on the island of Luzon and is one of the smallest volcanoes in the country

Pacific heatwave: ‘More research needed to find what causes this’

Down To Earth speaks to marine heatwave experts Nicholas Bond about the high sea surface temperature anomaly in the Pacific and its significance

That sinking feeling

A baffled Bihar is struggling to provide food and shelter to three million people rendered homeless by a flood that swept through five districts. …

The importance of good-neighbourliness

Readymade bridges

A modular bridge kit made of railroad flatcar decks

Discounting the future

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Bengal floods kills 893

Tidal wave kills 26

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We did our bit

Amongst the tsunami-affected in Nagapattinam, Tamil Nadu

Mission impossible

Post-Tsunami Sri Lanka traverses the snag-infested path to disaster management

Latest World Disasters Report focusses on neglected crises

Sorrow of Bihar

WHO fund to boost emergency preparedness in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asia Regional Health Emergency Fund to help 11 member countries prepare for natural disasters and health emergencies

Subduing the bulldozer

For centuries, the Dutch have been trying to keep their heads over water by barricading out the sea and the rivers. But there comes a point when …

Landslide dams river, and then frees its fury

Through many weary days and nights since March, the residents of a south Ecuadorean valley kept a wary eye on a landslide holding back the rain-…

Tantrums of the "Christ Child"

A weather event which Peruvians once regarded as a boon is now recognised as causing terrible global disasters

Sea strikes

Continuous pounding of the coasts of Victoria island in Nigeria by the Atlantic ocean threatens its safety

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