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    UN chief calls for greater action to address climate change

    14 Sep 2019

    World leaders attending the upcoming UN Climate Action Summit are being urged to show up armed not with speeches but with plans to achieve carbon neutrality, reduce emissions and improve adaptation.

    Thailand's northeast inundated after tropical storm

    14 Sep 2019

    Floods in northeastern Thailand have submerged homes, roads and bridges, leaving more than 23,000 people in evacuation shelters as anger grows over the government's “slow” emergency response.

    Nature’s fury in Assam takes its toll on wildlife

    23 Jul 2019

    Over the past week, disturbing images of the floods in Assam have gone viral on social media. Humans and beasts alike have resorted to desperate measures to stay afloat and keep alive even as incessant rains wreaked havoc. Many other parts of India have already or are facing nature’s fury – after battling severe

    Specious reasoning

    08 Aug 2019

    Your newspaper carried two reports of floods in two different locations in two different countries. As I sit writing this, the flood is in my backyard though I’m not from either of the locations. I am writing from Goa and though not much is reported about the flood situation here, I can say that the entire Konkan coast

    Myanmar floods force tens of thousands from homes

    08 Aug 2019

    Aerial images from Shwegyin township in Bago region showed how the area had become a vast lake of water.

    Disaster management agencies need to have a pan-India outlook

    13 Aug 2019

    The erratic nature of the monsoons in the last few years in India is of grave concern. And the destruction caused by the monsoon floods is alarming. As for people in Kerala it is close to a repeat of the devastation it witnessed last year. According to reports it is the worst hit region so far, so much so that thousands

    Australia faces worst floods in 100 years

    22 Mar 2021

    Prime Minister Scott Morrison told Parliament that 35 communities in northern New South Wales had been isolated and emergency services had conducted more than 700 flood rescues.

    Some Australians return home as others evacuated in floods crisis

    25 Mar 2021

    Relentless rains for five straight days - the worst downpour in more than half a century - burst river banks, inundating homes, roads, bridges and farms and cutting off entire towns in Australia’s east.

    Calm Biden tackles storm’s fury

    21 Feb 2021

    Nature has its own way of dealing with humanity. Now its whims have affected the office of the most powerful person on the planet. He has not only to contend with man-made opposition and issues, but also deal with the ravages of Nature.

    Anushka, Kohli pledge to help people hit by floods

    30 Jul 2020

    Over 16 lakh people in 1,536 villages across 21 of Assam's 33 districts are still affected by flood, according to Assam State Disaster Management Authority (ASDMA) officials. More than 100 human lives have been lost in the state due to floods.

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