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					<title>Almost 20 years after the tsunami, Andaman’s mangroves are still changing</title>
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					<pubDate>03 Oct 2024 12:43:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Divya Kilikar]]>
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						<![CDATA[Priyanka Shankar]]>
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		<category><![CDATA[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[On December 26, 2004, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands changed forever. A tremor stirred 30 kilometres deep beneath the ocean floor in the Sunda trench off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. It reverberated into a deadly earthquake of 9.1 magnitude. Massive waves engulfed the entire archipelago. At least 250,000 people were severely affected. A tsunami, [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[On December 26, 2004, the Andaman and Nicobar Islands changed forever. A tremor stirred 30 kilometres deep beneath the ocean floor in the Sunda trench off the coast of Sumatra, Indonesia. It reverberated into a deadly earthquake of 9.1 magnitude. Massive waves engulfed the entire archipelago. At least 250,000 people were severely affected. A tsunami, the result of this tremor, was witnessed across South and Southeast Asia, and even distant East Africa. Human and socio-economic losses were brutal. To this day, we are yet to understand the full impact of this tragic event on the Andaman archipelago. The tsunami also impacted mangroves along the coast of the Islands. While initial reports recorded a 60-70 percent loss of mangrove cover, detailed studies reported a 97 percent loss. Twenty years after the devastation, the archipelago and its mangroves are still reeling from the aftermath. A study published in May 2024 monitored the long-term response of mangroves to the geomorphological changes left in the wake of the tsunami. North Andaman experienced coastal uplift (sea level drop or SLD) of approximately 1.3 metres, while South Andaman experienced coastal subsidence (sea level rise or SLR) of about 1.1 metres. Little to no changes were observed in Middle Andaman. Mangrove species are changing slowly but surely in the 20 years since the tsunami. “The uplifted sites mimicking the SLD scenario appeared more destructive to mangroves (tree density – 771/ha) in comparison to subsided sites mimicking the SLR scenario (tree density – 937/ha),” noted the study. The turning of&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2024/10/almost-20-years-after-the-tsunami-andamans-mangroves-are-still-changing/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>India’s first two ‘Tsunami Ready’ villages</title>
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					<pubDate>26 Aug 2020 15:55:11 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Manish Kumar]]>
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						<![CDATA[Aditi Tandon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Eco Hope]]>
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							<![CDATA[Odisha]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coast, Tsunami, and Villages]]>
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							<![CDATA[Two coastal villages in Odisha have been declared the first two ‘Tsunami Ready’ villages in the Indian Ocean Region. While parts of the country are still coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, the two villages celebrated the announcement that came through in the first week of August. The recognition was given by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Two coastal villages in Odisha have been declared the first two ‘Tsunami Ready’ villages in the Indian Ocean Region. While parts of the country are still coping with the COVID-19 pandemic, the two villages celebrated the announcement that came through in the first week of August. The recognition was given by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO for the preparedness of the local community in two villages &#8211; Noliasahi in Jagatsinghpur district and Venkatraipur in Ganjam district &#8211; against tsunamis. Noliasahi falls under the Erasama Block of Jagatsinghpur district, one of the blocks that was worst hit by the 1999 Super Cyclone. According to archival documents of the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD), close to 7,000 people had lost their lives in this block alone while Odisha state overall saw close to 10,000 deaths, in the 1999 cyclone. Two decades down the line, many coastal villages in the block have reconstructed their homes and livelihoods after the severe devastation. The success of Noliasahi and Venkatraipur Amar Mondal is a sexagenarian betel vine grower from the village. Displaying his small patch of betel vine farm, he said that most of the villagers here rely either on fishing or betel vine growing for their livelihood. “We had faced a severe blow when the cyclone hit us in 1999 as several loved ones lost their lives then. But now the village has been trained, equipped and well informed to fight tsunamis and cyclones,” he told Mongabay-India. A beetel vine grower of Noliasahi village.&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2020/08/indias-first-two-tsunami-ready-villages/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>[Video] Climate-resilient agricultural methods help Andaman&#8217;s farmers</title>
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					<pubDate>04 Apr 2019 10:41:46 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Sharada Balasubramanian]]>
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						<![CDATA[Kartik Chandramouli]]>
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							<![CDATA[Flood and drought]]>
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							<![CDATA[Andaman and Nicobar Islands]]>
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							<![CDATA[Agriculture, Climate Change, Climate Change Adaptation, Climate Change Mitigation, Coast, Drought, Extreme Weather Events, Floods, Impacts of Climate Change, Islands, and Tsunami]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Andaman &#38; Nicobar islands, one of the Union Territories of India, are a group of islands between the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal. The islands receive over 3000 cubic mm rainfall every year. Despite this, the islands face water shortage in summer. After the 2004 tsunami, there was land subduction. This led to [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The Andaman &amp; Nicobar islands, one of the Union Territories of India, are a group of islands between the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal. The islands receive over 3000 cubic mm rainfall every year. Despite this, the islands face water shortage in summer. After the 2004 tsunami, there was land subduction. This led to increased and fluctuating salinity. Similarly, heavy rainfall led to severe waterlogging. For many years after the tsunami, farmers were unable to grow anything on the land. There are no canals, dams or borewells here and agriculture is completely rain-fed. Farmers have been facing crop damage with frequent cyclones and erratic rainfall due to the El Nino effect in recent years. The Central Island Agriculture Research Institute (CIARI) worked on strategies for sustainable management of degraded coastal land and water. They did an assessment of climate change and agricultural vulnerability for the islands to develop climate-resilient, resource-conserving technologies. One of the key solutions was the land shaping technique. This technique, where land is modified to save water, improves drainage, enables rainwater harvesting and reduces salinity. In these islands, land available for farming is limited. Scientists worked with the farmers to look at how productivity could be maximised in the limited land. At the same time, they also had to ensure that the solutions were localised, cost-effective, conserve natural resources like land, water and soil and make farming financially sustainable. After years of experimenting and testing, land shaping solutions in the Andamans were standardised. Techniques like the&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2019/04/video-climate-resilient-agricultural-methods-help-andamans-farmers/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>India develops ‘real time’ tsunami prediction system</title>
					<link>https://india.mongabay.com/2018/08/india-develops-real-time-tsunami-prediction-system/</link>
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					<pubDate>17 Aug 2018 14:36:03 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Mayank Aggarwal]]>
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						<![CDATA[Mayank Aggarwal]]>
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							<![CDATA[Arabian Sea and Bay of Bengal]]>
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							<![CDATA[Coast and Tsunami]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a major development in India’s capability to assess dangers following a tsunami event, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) has now developed a system which will be able to predict risk to coastal areas, height of waves that can hit them and even pinpoint vulnerable buildings, all in ‘realtime’. This will [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In a major development in India’s capability to assess dangers following a tsunami event, the Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services (INCOIS) has now developed a system which will be able to predict risk to coastal areas, height of waves that can hit them and even pinpoint vulnerable buildings, all in ‘realtime’. This will make India the first nation in the world to do so, said INCOIS,  an institute under the Indian government’s Ministry of Earth Sciences (MoES). “In the current scenario of tsunami forecast, India uses the earthquake information (location and magnitude) to provide coastal forecast of expected tsunami arrival times and expected wave amplitudes at beach along with threat status (warning/alert/watch/no threat) using tsunami scenario database,” said E. Pattabhi Rama Rao, a scientist at INCOIS, while explaining the new system to the Mongabay-India. Pattabhi Rama Rao, the head of INCOIS’s Tsunami and Storm Surge Early Warning Services Group (TWG), said that the “capability of being able to run the propagation and inundation model in real-time will be beneficial to operational tsunami warning centres to reduce the uncertainties in tsunami forecasting.” This would mean a major update to the present mechanism. “If we run a model in real-time, we need not depend on scenario databases that are run using worst-case parameters. Instead, we can wait for real-time earthquake source parameters that can be derived within 15-20 minutes of the earthquake and use those for running the model in real-time. Those forecasts will be much more accurate than scenario-based&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://india.mongabay.com/2018/08/india-develops-real-time-tsunami-prediction-system/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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