European State of the Climate Report 2024
<p>Europe is the fastest-warming continent, and the impacts of climate change are clear. 2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe. Storms were often severe and flooding widespread, claiming at least
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Extreme wet, dry spells up drought, flood risks in India
In an alarming research, a team of scientists at Stanford University have identified significant changes in the patterns of extreme wet and dry events that are increasing the risk of drought and flood
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Rough weather ahead: El Nino may impact GDP, stoke inflation
An El Nino-induced below-normal monsoon this year could have a bearing on economic growth in FY 2015 and inflation, according to reports. An HSBC report said inflation may remain sticky in the current
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Drought-proofing India
Given the Met’s disastrous track record in predicting the impact of El Nino events—the first projection in 2009 was of a rainfall level of 96% of the long-period average against the actual levels of just
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El Nino doesn’t always cause drought
New Delhi:Amid concerns of deficient rains this monsoon, a new study has shown that since 1980, all El Nino years have not resulted in a drought, although all droughts have happened in years of El Nino.
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Inadequate rainfall adds to misery of farmers in Maharashtra
Aurangabad (Maharashtra): Absence of proper rainfall has risked the farmlands of Aurangabad district in Maharashtra and lack of subsequent effective government intervention is leaving farmers with no option
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Declare Tamil Nadu drought-hit: association
‘Water scarcity curtailed cultivation of short-term crops’. The Tamizhaga Vivasayegal Sangam has made an appeal to the Government to declare Tamil Nadu as a drought-hit State. A resolution in this connection
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Nor any drop to drink
Brazil has the world’s biggest reserves of fresh water. That most of it sits in the sparsely populated Amazon has not historically stopped Brazilians in the drier, more populous south taking it for granted.
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Meteorological Department warns of 5% deficit in rainfall, predicts 60% chance of El Nino this year
The weather office has forecast a 5% deficit in the June-September southwest monsoon this year but signaled the disruptive El Nino phenomenon could make things much worse for India's largely rain-fed farms,
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Brace for below-normal monsoon
IMD says will update its forecast in June after rains set in El Nino refers to the warmer-than-average sea surface temperature in the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean This condition occurs
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Govt. to provide water as taps run dry in Manipur
The Public Health Engineering Department (PHED) will supply water to the public to tide over the drought-like situation prevailing in Manipur. Making this announcement on Tuesday the PHED Minister Hemochandra