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Northeast flood situation critical toll rises to 36 over 5.5 lakh affected
In Assam, more than 5.35 lakh people were affected by the deluge in...
Torrential monsoon rains kill at least 30 in Northeastern states
Rivers swollen by the lashing rain including the mighty...
NDRF developing app, national plan to bring down number of drowning deaths, pegged at 38k a year
NDRF Director General Atul Karwal said that every year, as per the NCRB data, about 38,000 drowning deaths are reported in the country. This is more than 100 deaths each day. We need to find ways to deal with this situation in the earnest New Delhi: Drowning accounts...
Climate change may claim 14.5 mn lives by 2050: WEF
Flooding alone is estimated to cause 8.5 million deaths by 2050, posing "the highest acute risk of climate-induced mortality", according to the study. Droughts, as the second leading cause of climate-related mortality, are forecast to claim 3.2 million lives. Heat...
2023- Record heat, worsened droughts, floods and bushfires around the world
Some 77 countries experienced their highest average annual temperature in at least 45 years. Temperature records were shattered from Canada to Brazil, Spain to Thailand Professor Albert van Dijk,Fenner School of Environment & SocietyAustralian National University...
Climate change makes forecasting harder, says Australia’s agriculture minister
“Climate change is having an impact. The models that we’ve traditionally used are having to change because the climate is changing. That’s something that I know the Bureau is working hard on, but unfortunately, the reality is that climate change means that we are...
ECB cyber stress test not to affect capital requirements
The exercise will assess how banks respond to and recover from a cyberattack, rather than their ability to prevent it. As part of the exercise, 28 banks will undergo an “enhanced” assessment, under which they will have to submit additional information on how they...
Japan earthquake casts cloud over push to restart nuclear plants
Nuclear power plants dot the coast of mountainous Japan, which is prone to earthquakes and tsunamis due to its location on the seismically active “Ring of Fire” around the Pacific Ocean The powerful earthquake that hit Japan’s western coast on New Year’s Day has...
APAC sovereigns exposed to flooding risks, have limited capacity to adapt: Fitch
In South Asia, Bangladesh is the most prone to the risk of flooding. The materialisation of climate risks in these regions could lead to high economic losses. The cost of relocation from flood-prone areas and rebuilding following floods could be high, leading to...
Bengal govt fears flash-floods in Sikkim changed Teesta River’s trajectory in north Bengal
Apprehending that this frequent change in trajectory might impact the economic structure of the hills and plains of north Bengal to a great extent in the coming days, the irrigation department has decided to conduct a thorough “morphology survey” of the river Kolkata:...
Japan issued tsunami alerts after a series of strong quakes in the Sea of Japan
A tsunami of about 3 metres high was expected to hit Niigata and other prefectures on the western coast of Japan. Smaller tsunami waves were already confirmed to have reached the coastline, according to NHK.The area includes a nuclear plant. Tokyo Electric Power Co.,...
Tokyo court only holds utility responsible to compensate Fukushima evacuees and reduces damages
The decision is among the four rulings that apparently came in line with the June 2022 Supreme Court decision that said the government wasn't liable for the disaster and that the disaster from a tsunami that high wasn't foreseeable or preventable A Tokyo court has...