Uttarakhand residents get little succour

They have lost homes, belongings; claim no government aid available as yet

Lessons in dealing with floods

Thorthormi lake: Bhutan's impending climate disaster

Mission to reduce chances of glacial lake's outburst fails to achieve target

PUBLIC PRESSURE

US approves water bill

Zambezi action plan draws flak

Typhoon Wipha heads to Fukushima

Once-in-a-decade event poses a huge flood potential, say meteorologists

Floods affect over 60,000 in Assam

Rains swell rivers in Assam beyond danger level; roads, houses submerged

What really happened in Uttarakhand

Latest theory suggests combination of rain and landslides caused the disaster

Rivers' fury

Letters

Flood alert in Gujarat

Dam-induced floods feared in Ahmedabad, Gandhinagar and Kheda districts

Why Hirakud dam failed to check flood

The river has strayed from its flood control route

Dams induce severe floods

They were built for flood protection by attenuating rivers’ flow

Himalayan states also face risk of glacial lake outburst floods

The region is surrounded by 8000 glacial lakes, 200 of them potentially dangerous

Why floods despite dams

South Asia

European Parliament backs new law to create flood combating systems

Jammu and Kashmir was unprepared for flood fury

State did not have forecasting system or a disaster management plan in place

Sikkim at risk of devastating floods from glacial lake outbursts

State drags its feet over installing early warning systems

Daily Court Digest: Major environment orders (April 26, 2024)

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

Kenya’s devastating floods expose decades of poor urban planning and bad land management

The impact of floods has become more severe due to land degradation, human pressures & over-extraction of groundwater