While excess rains can cause long-lasting damage, droughts can impact efficiency of hydropower projects. In the last two ...

Climate change claims nearly 80,000 lives in India (1993-2022), reveals Germanwatch report. India ranks 6th globally in ...

The Climate Risk Index of India, however, has improved with the country being placed at 49th globally (2022), as against ...

While a 100 per cent advance warning for earthquake is not possible, the minister said there are 166 permanent seismological ...

Studies show that extreme weather events, which are becoming more frequent due to changing climate, increase durations of ...

India's Climate Risk Index rank improved from 7th worst in 2019 to 49th in 2022, reflecting better climate risk management.

Union Minister Dr. Jitendra Singh, while responding to questions in the Rajya Sabha, outlined India's robust disaster preparedness including earthquake preparedness as well as disaster management ...

Dr. Jitendra Singh recalled the significant role Gujarat played in pioneering disaster management efforts post the devastating Gujarat earthquakes.

India has ranked sixth in a global report analysing the most extreme weather-impacted countries from 1993 to 2022, with ...

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As per the CRI 2025 published by Bonn-based environmental organisation Germanwatch, there were more than 400 extreme weather ...

India ranked sixth in the Climate Risk Index, facing over 400 extreme weather events from 1993-2022, causing 80,000 deaths ...