The Indian Express

With climate change fast making its effect felt across all aspects of human civilisation, public health experts have called for more collaboration between meteorologists and public health experts to address various health risks arising out of climate change, reports the Indian Express. John Balbus, said that such collaboration can help in issuing early warnings for spread of infectious diseases...

The coastal district of Kendrapara witnessed severe floods 12 times from 1994 to 2013, reports the New Indian express. Loss of life and property was enormous. To avert such huge losses like in 2011 when 473 villages were badly hit, the Odisha State Disaster Mitigation Authority released a Flood Inundation Mapping for Kendrapara to help the vulnerable communities and district administration understand local flood risks and make cost-effective mitigation decisions...

This first-of-its-kind app in the country is intended to give information to citizens on various eco-friendly measures and alerts during disasters as part of preparedness planning, a release said, according to Indian Express. The climate change cell consists a rooftop solar feasibility calculator, a first of its kind in the country. The initiative is expected to help people take steps to make a difference to the city...

Six years ago, the mangroves at Sundarbans had acted as Kolkata’s saviour from Aila, by absorbing a massive chunk of the cylone’s fury. Finding ‘clear signs of erosion’ on the banks along the Sundarbans, a research team from JNU in collaboration with the West Bengal Disaster Management Authority, has stressed on the need for a ‘multi-disaster hazard plan’ while pointing out that cyclone Aila in 2009 had caused a lot more devastation in India, than it had in Bangladesh...

Ever since the tsunami struck the Tamil Nadu coast and snuffed out thousands of lives exactly a decade ago, there has been a paradigm shift in the focus of disaster management. A report on progress in Tamil Nadu, where central and state government, communities and villages participate in reducing disaster risk...

Watershed Organisation Trust (WOTR), a not-for-profit NGO working in the field of watershed development and adaptation to climate change, has made the films to chronicle the success of its watershed projects in two villages in the in drought-hit Marathwada region...

The Embassy of Switzerland, WOTR and NABARD have joined hands with the state government to work on a project aimed at empowering rural communities effectively to climate change impact and integrated disaster risk reduction strategies...

The Indian Express highlights the establishment of a new data centre for climate change in Himachal Pradesh to strengthen disaster preparedness for natural hazards and to develop mitigation and adaptation strategies...