Land degradation makes containing floods and droughts tough
Water erosion accounts for more than 50 per cent of total degraded area in India
Weather on order
A new technology could render weather forecasts redundant
Tidal wave kills 26
Wholesome find
Ozone hole over Antarctica is smaller in size this year due to atmospheric conditions
Too hot for Bush
Global warming would affect water availability in the US
Perfect model?
New method to forecast monsoon early
More people moved into high flood zones, exposing larger populations to water disasters: World Bank
Most countries, especially in East Asia, saw more settlements in regular flood zones, ultra-high flood zones than in dry areas
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 …
Heavy rains are not unusual in Kerala, yet...
The heavy spell cannot be seen in isolation from the seasonal distribution, rainfall abnormalities over the rest of the country or abnormal …
Agromet advisories to reach more farmers from July
Union minister for science and technology said this step is towards expansion and upgradation of weather services
Cyclone Sagar kills 16, displaces thousands in Middle East, East Africa
Cyclone Sagar, one of the rare ones to penetrate into western Gulf of Aden, was also the strongest tropical storm ever recorded in Somalia
We have never seen anything like this before: dust storm victims in Rajasthan, UP
Although the local administration had generated alerts about the dust storm, the intensity and scale was unexpected and unprecedented
New normal: series of intense, widespread storms in less than a week; 19 states brace for more
Unusually high temperature has aided such intense storms across the country, indicating more turbulent days ahead
$306 billion—total cost of climate disasters in US in 2017
A hyperactive hurricane season and deadly wildfire events are responsible for this record-breaking economic loss
2017: the year in extreme weather
2017 brought wild, wacky and even deadly weather. Australia was hit by heatwaves and torrential rains; hurricanes hit America and a killer …
Is the monsoon here? The winds say not yet
India Meteorological department has announced the onset of monsoon, but crucial wind conditions essential to back it are missing
India gets new weather prediction model for better forecasts
The very high resolution global deterministic weather prediction model, as per earth sciences ministry, shows significant improvement in daily …
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
Will May bring respite from heat? Here’s what IMD predicts
May may bring showers in many parts of India that have remained largely dry this 2022 pre-monsoon season
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
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
Climate action can help address crop loss in Central India
Small and marginal farmers in the central plateau are gradually finding agriculture non-viable