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Displaying 60 of about 612 resultsClimate and society no.3:
This issue highlights recent advances in the use of climate information to manage risks and improve livelihoods, such as new partnerships and user-designed information platforms. It draws together and analyses experiences from 17 case studies that capture the current state of knowledge. It also highlights research innovations…
Press release ID :95215, Ministry of Earth Science:
There is no clear cause and effect established between global warming and excessive rains and floods.
Monsoon rainfall varies on different spatial and temporal scales. Extreme rainfall events that occur at some isolated places (viz. heavy rainfall over Mumbai or in Rajasthan) are highly localized and…
By Jitendra
A heatwave is an ‘extreme weather event’ but the government does not keep data related to casualties caused by heatwaves, Union Minister of State for Environment, Forest and Climate Change Babul Supriyo told Parliament on June 28.
He gave details of all extreme weather events in India since 2014, from when the government has been…
'Cities bear the brunt of a heatwave because they are so densely populated, and because the effects are more pronounced'
By Rina Chandran
BANGKOK - More Indian cities need to implement heat action plans that include text-message alerts and cooling stations, to minimise deaths and illnesses related to rising temperatures, climate change experts an…
By Daisy Dunne
The record-breaking 2018 summer heatwave in Japan in which more than 1,000 people died “could not have happened without human-induced global warming”, a study finds.
And the extreme heat felt in Japan last summer could “become a usual situation” within the next few decades as temperatures continue to rise, the authors say.
The research…
By Sahana Ghosh and Mayank Aggarwal
India is experiencing one of the worst heatwave spells it has faced in the past few decades with about 200 deaths already recorded this year. Now, a recently published study has warned that poor urban neighbourhoods are more vulnerable to the extended effects of heat.
People in densely built, low-income neighbour…
By Hem H. Dholakia
As the already hot Indian summer gets hotter due to climate change, there is need for urgent action to combat debilitating heat stress and to build climate-resilient infrastructure
Indian summers were always hot. Now, they have turned lethal. Globally, we have seen a spate of record temperatures, with 2015, 2016 and 2017 being the t…
In the National Adaptation Programme of Action to Climate Change developed by the Lao government in 2009, Deputy Prime Minister Chair of National Environment Committee Mr Asang Laoly says Laos has seen in recent years “more frequent and severe floods and droughts which are alternately occurring each year.” “Temperature is continuously increasing and the…
By Amarjyoti Borah
Nagaon, India - An infestation of jute hairy caterpillar in parts of India’s Assam state has ruined the crops of several thousand farmers, leaving many facing a bleak future.
According to local farmers, the caterpillars were first noticed on Aug. 13 in jute plantations in the northeastern districts of Nagaon and Barpeta. They quickl…
By Arpita Mondal
Extreme event attribution is a growing field globally which studies the impact of human activities on climate change. India has to encourage attribution science studies.
Attribution analyses not only help in better understanding of the processes leading up to extreme events and how such processes have changed or will change in futu…
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The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) and IMD [India Meteorological Department] have both been conducting national and regional workshops on heat wave preparedness, while a number of states and cities across the country are participating with their plans on tackling this heat.
Special credit for this should go to the Ahmedabad Munici…
By Chirag Dhara
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Why are Kolkata’s temperatures rising? – The Urban Heat Island Effect in addition to greenhouse gases
Warming by greenhouse gases is a global phenomenon and, to that extent, contributes to the city’s rising temperature. Yet, there is a second major reason afflicting cities worldwide called the “urban heat island effec…
This policy brief synthesises key findings and recommendations for decision-making under uncertainty in the agriculture sector in Nepal. This brief highlights the methodologies used for selection of champion climate-smart agriculture (CSA) practices for different agro-ecological regions of Nepal and recommendations for scaling up the champion CSA techno…
State government of Orissa has submitted a proposal of Rs 609.40 crore with National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) to initiate measures to face calamities. Rs 190 crore of these funds would be earmarked for saline embankment along the coast, Rs 195 crore would be kept aside for providing road connectivity to various calamity shelters. Similarly,…
“Risk reduction remains the core of Bhubaneswar’s development vision,” says Piyush Ranjan Rout, an urban management practitioner and co-founder of Local Governance Network, an NGO that nominated the city for the Sasakawa Award, in a report by Manipadma Jena for AlertNet.