Says these cities are very vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to sea level rise and coastal flooding

Rising sea levels due to climate change are threatening the survival of big cities located near coastal areas like Kolkata, Shanghai and Dhaka, said Dr R K Pachauri, chairperson of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). "There is a very high risk in delta cities like Kolkata, Shanghai and Dhaka. They are very vulnerable to the impacts of climate change due to sea level rise and coastal flooding. Both people and property would be affected in such a scenario," Pachauri told reporters here.

Guwahati, April 5: To mitigate the artificial flood in Guwahati city, the Kamrup metropolitan district administration has been taking various steps.

Guwahati: The Assam government has moved the Centre for setting up Brahmaputra River Valley Authority in the wake of opposition from Arunachal Pradesh to the idea of North East Water Resources Auth

Massive flooding killed 54 persons in and around Buenos Aires, with most of the victims found after a second day of record rainfall hit the area.

Country faces more frequent and more severe weather events if it fails to make deep and swift cuts to carbon emissions

GUWAHATI: MLAs of the Asom Gana Parishad (AGP) on Tuesday moved a resolution for inclusion of erosion in the list of eligible natural calamities for assistance under the National Disaster Response

Noida: The National Green Tribunal on Monday issued notices to UP government and the Union ministry of environment and forests, among others, over allegations of massive encroachment on the floodpl

New Delhi: The government doesn’t want to be legally obliged to provide subsidized rations to the poor — under the National Food Security Bill — when they need them most such as during droughts, floods, fire, cyclones, earthquakes and other natural calamities.

In the proposed bill, the government has inserted a special provision to suspend its legal commitment to provide subsidized grains to the
poor whenever it — along with the Planning Commission — decides that such calamities have occurred.

Stresses on water supplies aggravated by climate change are likely to cause more conflicts and water should be considered as vital to national security as defense, the United Nations report said on

Six people were killed and 18 were missing today after they were buried in a landslide caused by heavy rain on Indonesia’s Java island.