On November 11 this year, Cyclone Gaja hit the eastern coast of Tamil Nadu. Over the course of a little more than a week, thousands of people lost their homes,…
After dithering over it for years, Jammu & Kashmir’s Department of Forest, Ecology and Environment uploaded the draft of the State Environment Policy (SEP) 2018 on its website in the…
In the middle of August 2018, Kerala went through severe floods, the likes of which was experienced earlier nearly hundred years ago in 1924. Two years earlier in 2016, both…
Attribution analyses not only help in better understanding of the processes leading up to an extreme event and how such processes have changed or will change in future, attribution information…
Is time running out for the 260-odd endangered sangai deer which have their only home Manipur? The sangai or the Indian Eld’s deer (Rucervus eldii eldii) resides as an isolated single…
Dams are often blamed for worsening the impact of floods. But this time, when Kerala witnessed one of the worst floods in its history, dams are not in the line…
Heavy, incessant rainfall is a fact of life for the people of Kodagu (the erstwhile Coorg district) in Karnataka. “For the old timers here in Coorg, the last few months…
After the water receded from most of the flood affected areas of Kerala, the state has been facing threat over the outbreak of leptospirosis (rat fever), a zoonotic infection which is caused by…
It is time to look at land use planning and zoning regulations to reduce damages from landslides and strengthen disaster preparedness, say experts at Geological Survey of India in the…
Building a new city from scratch presents the opportunity to avoid environmental mistakes that other cities have already made. So ever since the Andhra Pradesh Government began work on its…
In 2015, the Andhra Pradesh Government led by Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu started the development of a new capital city, Amaravati. But creating a new capital city from scratch…
As dusk turned to evening on Friday, August 10, the residents of Kerala and its diaspora spread across the world, watched the television with alarm as water released from the…
The state of Kerala has been facing unusually high rainfall since early August this year, which has led to statewide floods taking several lives and causing severe damage. According to…
Two months of the annual southwest monsoon are over, with another two to go. As against a normal rainfall of 452.8 millimetres (mm), the country has received 426.1 mm rainfall,…
Every time there is persistent and intense rainfall in Ladakh, the cold desert region of India's northern state Jammu and Kashmir, the locals begin to worry. It brings back images…
H.P. Upreti, an ex-serviceman lives in the Shakti Vihar locality of the Srinagar town of Uttarakhand. He vividly recalls the day, five years ago, when one of the worst natural…
Take a disaster-prone area, add some lax administration and generous helpings of construction projects and voila! What do you get? Uttarakhand, the north Indian hill state which is a perfect…