Extreme weather hits economies, hurts Asia most: WMO report

Loss due to landslides increased by 147% compared to average in the past 20 years

How global warming will impact Indian states

A one-metre rise in sea level will displace 7.1 million people in India

Simply Put: Weather news during climate crisis

El Nino-like weather conditions increased short-term malnutrition in children across tropics: Study

Nearly 6 million children were driven into hunger during 2015 El Nino

Karnataka flood trigger: Rainfall 3000% above normal in a single day

Downpour 3176% above normal in Mysuru, 2222% in Dharwad on Aug 8

Cyclone Fani to hit Odisha coast tomorrow afternoon

People in nine districts are being evacuated today

Land degradation makes containing floods and droughts tough

Water erosion accounts for more than 50 per cent of total degraded area in India

Adverse weather pushes up food prices

Prices of sugar, palm oil and milk have gone up sharply

How do extreme weather events lead to increase in child marriages?

Droughts, floods and other extreme weather events by intensify gender inequality and poverty, causing a spurt in child, early and forced …

The UK is still not prepared for extreme temperatures – here’s what it should do

The UK has numerous frameworks and plans; however, they are not integrated, don’t consider dependencies between sectors and issues and they …

Extreme weather events led to 8 deaths, destroyed almost 390,000 hectares of cropped area in Jan-Feb 2023

Haryana saw most damage to cropped area; Karnataka saw extreme cold events after a gap of over four decades

Auckland floods: Kerala woman travelling to New Zealand narrates her experience of being stranded at Malaysia airport

Many desperately need their luggage off the plane for medicines, sanitary napkins and clothes

Davos 2023: Natural disasters, extreme weather second-most severe global risk in short term

India recorded extreme weather events on 291 of the 334 days between January 1 and November 30, 2022

As told to Parliament (December 7, 2022): 71% Indians can’t afford nutritious food, member of Parliament cites DTE report

More than 1.7 million people die every year due to diseases caused by poor diet, DTE reported

Maharashtra doubles input subsidy for farmers, citing extreme weather events

Maharashtra farmers skeptical about doubling of input subsidy by state government; say benefits hardly accrue to them

Climate change, poor planning: Why Assam’s floods are getting worse

The current spate of floods in Assam claimed 71 lives and affected nearly 3.2 million people in 32 districts

Why the deportation of an English anthropologist has south Kerala’s fishing communities worried

Filippo Osella was about to launch a precise early weather-warning system the fish workers badly need

Tomato price rise: Farmers in Andhra say that is only part of the whole story

All-year demand, the pressures of cultivating tomato off season and changing climate are making life difficult for Chittoor’s farmers

Children born in 2020 will experience 6.8 times more heatwaves than those born in 1960: Report

Limiting warming to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels will reduce the additional lifetime exposure of new-borns to heatwaves by 45%, droughts …

A third of deaths due to extreme events occurred in Africa over 50 years: WMO

Africa accounted for only one per cent of global economic losses due to weather, climate and water extremes in 50 years

India lost crops on 18 million hectares to extreme floods from 2017-2019: Govt

Madhya Pradesh hardest-hit; figures show gross underestimation of crop losses due to floods

Factsheet: Extreme Weather Events

There has been evidence since 1950 of changes in climate extremes. Observed changes in climate extremes reflect the influence of anthropogenic …

Cyclone Fani has been difficult to predict, but it’s not the first one

Cyclones Gaja, Titli and Ockhi had also intensified very quickly and taken weather forecasters and scientists by surprise

'Warmer future can lead to heavier hailstorms'

UK researcher Amulya Chevuturi talks to DTE about how hailstorms occur and how they could intensify with rising temperatures

Counting the cost of catastrophe

With changing climate, the frequency of extreme weather events in India is rising and so is the price we pay for it.