A scary video of sea foam engulfing the streets of a Spanish town due to a powerful storm is going viral. Froth covers streets of Spain Photo: Twitter/reuters A video of a town in Spain covered in frothy sea foam has gone viral on Twitter and it has left netizens questioning the alarming climate change […]
Source: CDANetwork All images courtesy of the IFRC “The next disaster will strike when the memory of the last one has been forgotten.” Thus reads the first line of Fiji’s National Disaster Risk Reduction Policy, which was formally launched in Suva late in December 2019. For the people of Fiji, the memory of Tropical Cyclone […]
Human-induced climate change promotes the conditions on which wildfires depend, increasing their likelihood – according to a review of research on global climate change and wildfire risk published today. In light of the Australian fires, scientists from the University of East Anglia (UEA), Met Office Hadley Centre, University of Exeter, Imperial College London, and CSIRO […]
The 10 years to the end of 2019 have been confirmed as the warmest decade on record by three global agencies. According to Nasa, Noaa and the UK Met Office, last year was the second warmest in a record dating back to 1850. The past five years were the […]
The absence of sea ice in the Arctic is closely connected to the melting of permafrost, according to a new study. Permafrost contains massive amounts of carbon which are likely to be released as […]
HYDERABAD: The city is dire need of an improvement in infrastructure to handle the onslaught of climate change, according to experts. Pointing out the possibility of a crisis in the near future, they said that a lacunae in policy is one among many factors that will affect disaster response. “Climate change manifests itself both in […]
They found him stranded inside his waterlogged home. Dressed in shorts and slippers and with a few bags by his side, he was rescued along with his family members. The deputy chief minister of Bihar, Sushil Kumar Modi, looked embarrassed. The incessant rainfall in the Indian state over the weekend of September 27 killed more […]
