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How flood protection structures heighten flood vulnerability

Simrin Sirur 29 Nov 2024

Silt, a major reason for Kosi river’s flooding

Rahul Singh 25 Nov 2024

Island villages between Kosi embankments neglected after Bihar floods

Rahul Singh 7 Nov 2024
Flooded school campus. Image by Ananya Chetia.

When books sink underwater in Assam

Ananya Chetia 4 Oct 2024
The Hummingbird School campus of Assam during the 2017 floods. Image by special arrangement.

Schools feel the heat as closures increase with extreme weather events

Shailesh Shrivastava 27 Sep 2024

Flood risk study of Himalayan valley highlights unregulated tourism as a cause

Arathi Menon 29 Jul 2024

Lives of thousands of families hang in the balance as the water level of Sardar Sarovar dam is altered

Rahul Singh 9 Jul 2024

How the Sikkim flood drowned farming and fishing opportunities in northern West Bengal

Arunima Kar 1 Mar 2024

Why south Tamil Nadu received record-breaking rain during the northeast monsoon

Laasya Shekhar 10 Jan 2024

Hydropower projects vulnerable to warming climate and increased precipitation

Manish Kumar 29 Mar 2023
As per the Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare, 40% of the agriculture in India is dependent on rain. The constant variations in rainfall pattern will impact the sector and India's food production. Photo by Leo Sebastian (IRRI-Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security)/Flickr

A year of extreme weather events has weighed heavy on India’s agricultural sector

Vivek Gupta 7 Nov 2022
A shop set on a raft in Guwahati. Assam has 9.40 percent of the total flood-prone area of the country.

Unprecedented flood cripples Assam, massive loss of life and property reported

Nabarun Guha 30 Jun 2022

As Kosi river keeps changing, ownership of land on its embankments under question

Umesh Kumar Ray 31 May 2022

[Video] When sand mining alters a river, flooding farmlands in Spiti

Munmun Dhalaria 12 May 2022

Surveying maps, roping in authorities and building a community for Bengaluru’s lakes

Shoma Abhyankar 6 Dec 2021

Freely-available geospatial dataset to make flood research easier

Sahana Ghosh 16 Nov 2021
'Flood-hit villages relocating after flood in Muzaffarpur district of Bihar. Photo by Madhav

Limitations in Bihar’s flood relief likely due to budget constraints

Pushyamitra 4 Aug 2021
Embankment work is going on Bagmati river near Belwa. Photo- WRD Bihar/Facebook

Farmers, near Bagmati river in Bihar, pick fertility of land over safety from floods

Pushyamitra 20 Apr 2021