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Monsoon 2023: Can India forecast drought in the long-term?

A recent deep-learning model finds that till 2027, major parts of the country will be affected by droughts  

Flash droughts: How are they linked to climate change?

Flash droughts are short dry spells replacing slower onslaughts, making them harder to predict

Drought watch: More than half of India affected in July

Around 46.11 per cent of the country is ‘abnormally dry’ or ‘exceptionally dry’

NASA images show impact of Cyclone Eloise on Mozambique

Thousands of acres of farmlands have been flooded by the cyclone

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

FIGHT AGAINST FLOOD

FLOOD--HIT

DROUGHT HIT

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (September 20, 2023)

Down To Earth brings you the top environmental cases heard in the Supreme Court, the high courts and the National Green Tribunal  

Gujarat declares drought after months of delay

While other states had declared drought months ago, Gujarat govt kept calling it a “scarcity of water”

Tamil Nadu declared drought-hit in view of deficient rain, farmer deaths

Most districts in the state witnessed deficient rainfall from October 1 to December 31, 2016

Disease outbreak feared due to Chennai floods

A survey done in the city has found that 90 per cent population is unable to access safe water or food

Assam drenched, devastated

After the heat wave the deluge. Flash floods, triggered by torrential rains over the past two weeks, have rendered at least four lakh people …

No respite for Odisha and Andhra from extreme rains, floods

Ongole town in Andhra receives 34 cm rains in one day; 68 people die in flood fury in two states. Raghuram Puvvada reports from Hyderabad and …

Run-up to COP27: Mozambique braces for more extreme weather events as rainy season begins

Mozambique was devastated by 3 tropical cyclones earlier this year

Uttarakhand's displaced

Unfortunately named

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

Cyclone Gaja case study: Relief fund not enough to rebuild even a wall

Residents of a village in Tamil Nadu are struggling to make ends meet with the compensation provided by the government

Sri Lanka witnesses worst flood in 14 years; death toll reaches 100

Over 200,382 people belonging to 52,603 families were affected across 14 districts in the country

NGOs left holding the baby

The state is slowly withdrawing from the welfare sector leaving voluntary organisations in a quandary