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India implements a plan to boost climate-resilient agriculture. The Indian Council of Agricultural Research identifies 310 vulnerable districts, promotes adaptive technologies, and establishes Climate Resilient Villages to aid farmers.
Managing man-animal conflict is the forest department's job. But once it is declared a state-specific disaster, the state disaster management authority deals with it. Here's why that is important
The report says the high-risk sites in Delhi are commonly found on high-speed national highways, expressways. They are often road sections which cut through places with high pedestrian volume such as schools, metro stations, and commercial areas.
Pockets of Chandrayangutta, Falaknuma and Rajendranagar where the highest rainfall of just 5 cm was recorded in Bandlaguda, were worst affected and exposed the under-preparedness of the municipal authorities.
Chandigarh was designed after multiple deliberations on maximising thermal comfort and creating a pleasant natural microclimate. The city now needs to adopt new technologies to deal with climate change while respecting Le Corbusier’s design philosophy.
Centre for Longevity and Bio- Repository Centre are also part of the project that will come up at Bangalore Bioinnovation Centre (BBC) in electronic city.
The Climate Research and Services (CRS) office, Pune, of the India Meteorological Department (IMD) is presently developing the first-of-its-kind 'Vulnerability Atlas'.
While Mumbai has seen constant rise in temperature after 2007, there has been a substantial increase in intense rainfall and storm events in the past five years. Areas like Worli, Dadar, Kurla and Andheri are more prone to extreme rainfall events.
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