Annual climate summary 2023
The report discusses the climate condition over Indian region during the year 2023. Notably, global temperatures soared to exceptionally high levels during this period (WMO.No.1347). The India Meteorological
Cyclones
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100,000 stranded after flash floods in Khulna
Flash floods submerged some 20 villages, affecting over 100,000 people, as a flood embankment was breached in several places at Dakope upazila, Khulna, officials said on Saturday.
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Aila damage blamed for dam breaches after rains
Twenty-four hours of incessant rain, caused by a low in the Bay of Bengal, has left hundreds of thousands marooned as some 65 villages in Khulna and Barguna districts inundated, WDB officials said on Saturday, blaming delayed or poor repairs to damaged flood barriers after Cyclone Aila hit the southwest region in May.
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Global framework planned for climate services
The World Climate Conference-3 concluded in Geneva Friday with a decision to create a global framework for climate services to help the global community better adapt to the challenges of the climate variability and change. The prime minister, Sheikh Hasina, Friday chaired the high-level segment of the World Climate Conference.
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Project fails to make way in Aila-hit zones
The Public Health Engineering (PHE) department had decided to undertake a project of setting up high-raised platform tubewells in different areas of South 24-Parganas and North 24-Parganas, that had been ravaged by the cyclone Aila in May this year. The project could not take off, as most of these areas, including Gosaba, Basanti and Patharpratima are still under water.
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UK to help Bangladesh face challenges of climate change
Two visiting UK ministers on Monday conveyed the commitment of their government to help Bangladesh meet the challenges of climate change. They apprised the commitment at a press conference at the British High Commission Club of city's Baridhara yesterday.
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Climate change and the future impacts of storm-surge disasters in Developing Countries
As the climate changes during the 21st century, larger cyclonic storm surges and growing populations may collide in disasters of unprecedented size. As conditions worsen, variations in coastal morphology will magnify the effects in some areas, while largely insulating others.
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Climate change and development
Ed Miliband and Douglas Alexander With the clock ticking and less than a hundred days to go until ministers from around the world meet at the U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, now is the time for the U.K. and India to work together to get a climate deal that is fair to the region
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Relief stalled
CPI(M)-Trinamul rivalry affects aid to cyclone Aila victims relief funds from the central government to help victims of cyclone Aila in West Bengal have hardly reached the needy. Political one-upmanship between the ruling cpi(m) in the state and Mamata Banerjee
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Victims of the hungry tide take one day at a time
Ananya Dutta Residents of the Sunderbans islands are forced to live on the embankments or on temporary huts put up on stilts. File Photo: Sushanta Patronobish The Hindu Residents of the Sunderbans islands are forced to live on the embankments or on temporary huts put up on stilts. File Photo: Sushanta Patronobish