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Oceans and Coasts
Protecting India from maritime disasters
Posted on 25 May, 2021 04:41 PMOn May 17, 2021 Cyclone Tauktae, the first extremely severe cyclone from the Arabian Sea in over two decades, barrelled up the country’s western coast, making its landfall in Gujarat.
Fifty million people in Indian cities lack access to safe drinking water
Posted on 12 May, 2021 05:46 PMFifty million people in fifteen cities in India have no access to safe, affordable drinking water: UNICEF report
Centre notifies fly ash utilisation draft rules
Posted on 29 Apr, 2021 10:42 AMDraft rules call for 100 percent utilisation of fly ash in three to five years
Locals struggle with WASH issues post-Amphan
Posted on 17 Aug, 2020 12:17 PMUN’s recognition of safe and clean drinking water and sanitation as a human right recently hit a decade and this makes us ponder even more about the situation in the Sundarbans after the Amphan cyclone. The destruction caused by Amphan in the Sundarbans poses a massive threat to the very right to safe and clean drinking water and sanitation of the people living there.
Amphan’s impact on farming and livelihood in Sunderbans
Posted on 11 Aug, 2020 05:46 PMThe Amphan cyclone has disfigured the lives of people living in the Sundarbans. Houses have been torn apart, farms have been filled with brackish water making the land unsuitable for farming and betel leaves have been destroyed. People in the Sundarbans are in a life-threatening situation with makeshift shacks to live in and no means to earn a living.
Flood batters Assam, over 16 lakh people hit
Posted on 09 Jul, 2020 11:30 AMFlood situation in Assam continues to remain grim
UP tops in providing employment under MGNREGS
Posted on 25 Jun, 2020 07:38 AMUP emerges as the top state in the country to give employment under MGNREGS
Covid-19 threatens to worsen India's water crisis
Posted on 24 May, 2020 12:50 AMWhile the world has got a reprieve from pollution with emerging wildlife, cleaner air and clearer water bodies during lockdown, Covid-19 might actually be worsening the present water crisis in an inconspicuous manner. The world is still developing more clarity on safeguards that can prevent transmission, treatment and post treatment complications.
Covid-19 could push 260 million Indians into poverty: Research
Posted on 20 May, 2020 10:42 AMNearly 260 million Indian could be pushed to poverty due to Covid-19: Researchers
A climate change wake-up call
Posted on 21 Jan, 2020 06:53 AMA new McKinsey Global Institute report, ‘Climate risk and response: Physical hazards and socioeconomic impacts’, suggests that many assumptions about the pote