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Kerala Floods: Shame how we Indians politicised a National Calamity and Tragedy

As weeks of wild weather smashed into the north-western Australian coast in February 2018, and record summer ra...

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Environment

Third Pole, World’s third-largest mass of Frozen Fresh Water in Danger

We've all heard of the North Pole and the South, the world’s two polar regions. However, there is a regio...

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Bollywood

Celebrities contribute generously to aid Flood-Ridden Kerala

Heavy rains have left the state of Kerala to flood in neck-deep water. This, in addition to massive landslides,...

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Environment

Women Rise to Save the Planet

Earth's climate has changed bit by bit, every day throughout the history, affecting every living and non-living...

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Trending

Monsoon Deluge: Between Predictions And Advisories

The 29th of August saw Mumbai fall victim to a cloudburst, and, as the city went under, drowning in amassed water, one paused to think of the reason as to why our cities ke...

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Gender

TBI Blogs: One Woman Single-Handedly Brought An Entire District Back On Its Feet After The Manipur Floods

Even thinking about the lashing rains, followed by massive landslides, road cave-ins, a bridge collapse, and hundreds of crumbling homes, brings chilling fear back to her b...

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Environment

More Than 100 Feared Dead After Landslides In Sri Lanka

Roughly 150 people are feared dead on Wednesday after more than three days of heavy rainfall triggered two landslides in central Sri Lanka. Rescuers have been digging throu...

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Environment

How Climate Change In The Arctic Could Cause Tsunamis In The UK

Disasters are ranked according to both their potential for damage and the likelihood that they will occur in the next five years. An influenza pandemic, for example, is con...

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Sustainable Development

Countries Pitch In For Early Warning Systems And Accurate Weather Projections

Taking into account the rising frequency of extreme weather events across the world and subsequent damages, the Subsidiary Body of Scientific and Technological Advice (SBST...

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Environment

Getting disaster resilience right

Last year, Asia Pacific suffered 6,000 fatalities and economic losses of almost US$60 billion due to natural disasters. UNESCAP executive secretary Shamshad Akhtar outlines...

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