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Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent, and Indian reservations in the USA are struggling as they receive less funds to prepare and repair.
Heatwaves affect poor urban neighbourhoods more than high-income areas due to a lack of open green spaces and air conditioning, a new study finds.
As India attempts to construct a dam on the India-Nepal border, a new study warns that the dam is vulnerable to earthquakes and extreme weather if executed in its current form.
Odisha's handling of the threat posed by Cyclone Fani was admirable, but the coastal state can still intensify resilience building efforts.
Two separate studies highlight Sri Lanka's increased risk to changing weather patterns that are driving extensive changes in both living standards and livelihoods.
New research finds that there is more Indian area under concurrent drought and heat waves in recent years (1981-2000) compared to an earlier time period (1951-1980). Moreover, there is an increase in the frequency of concurrent heatwaves and drought, heightening the risk of forest fires.
India must embrace attribution science by integrating climate studies, hydrology, social sciences and related disciplines. With increasing and changing extreme events like the most recent Kerala floods, adaptation, mitigation and preparedness is unavoidable.
In an unprecedented development that India is the first country to operationalise, The Indian National Centre for Ocean Information Services has now developed a real time tsunami prediction system that will be able to predict risk to coastal areas, height of waves that can hit them and even pinpoint vulnerable buildings.
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