Letters

Ahmedabad’s beat-the-heat plan

Civic body to send weather alerts, create public awareness and train medical officials

Union Cabinet approves disposing of Bhopal waste in Germany

Actual disposal of waste may take up to a year

Disaster fund for cold wave

Decision likely after Madhya Pradesh incurred huge crop losses in January

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South Asia

Bhopal to get Rs 110 cr memorial

Landslide dams Tsangpo river

Over $9 trillion investments in infrastructure resilience, Net Zero needed by 2050 to mitigate climate impact: CDRI

Climate change may lead to an global average annual loss of over $700 billion in infrastructure sectors and buildings

Seven disasters have cost the US $19 billion in 2023: NOAA

Each disaster caused damages of over a billion dollars; only 2017 and 2020 had more disasters in this timeframe

How to use free satellite data to monitor natural disasters and environmental changes

Increasing availability of open-access data from government satellites have made it possible for everyone to gain insight into …

Subterranean Leak

The CSE tests had found high levels of groundwater and soil contamination in and around the Union Carbide factory

The Himalayan waters: complex challenges and regional solutions

Countries in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region should recognise the potential of water resources for sustainable development

High standards for high-risk projects

We need to vigorously defend our remaining rivers from over-damming and strengthen the laws and standards that protect them

Cyclone Helen hits Andhra coast

Makes landfall close to Machillipatnam; people evacuated from vulnerable areas; 130 relief camps opened in Krishna district

Cyclone Hudhud makes landfall on Andhra coast; three killed

People are warned to stay indoors as trees, poles and hoardings risk being uprooted

Phailin fallout: people face acute drinking water shortage

200 people in Ganjam get diarrhoea after drinking contaminated water

Yesterday once more

Unsafe cleanup of the Carbide factory revives memories of Bhopal's tragedy

Lying low

Johan von Schreeb on humanitarian aid

Johan Von Schreeb, a surgeon who has worked for the group Medicins Sans Frontieres, is a public health scholar with the Karolinska Institutet, …

2 days after Amphan landfall, Sagar island still left in the lurch

Local administration in the island struggle with limited resources in the aftermath of cyclone Amphan

Inheritance of loss

Economic losses due to extreme weather events reach record high while nations spar over liability

Floods in north and east India kill 120 people

Release of flood waters from Nepal affect large parts of Uttar Pradesh and Bihar

At atom's mercy

A treaty that prevents WHO from reporting on effects of nuclear radiation

Course correction