-The Telegraph Senior official says deaths are highest in 'recorded' history of the state Guwahati: Assam has suffered 195 Human Casualties in the two waves of flood that have hit the state between April 6 and July 15 this year, leaving behind a trail of unprecedented destruction, affecting one third of the state’s over 3.2 crore population and triggering a massive rescue and relief operation. According to chief minister Himanta Biswa Sarma, besides...
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Climate Change is real: Unusual early summer causes wildfires in Kerala -KA Shaji
-Down to Earth Wildfires have been reported from the buffer zone of Silent Valley National Park apart from Wayanad Wildlife Sanctuary, Attappadi Reserve Forest and Walayar Reserve Forest Kerala has witnessed raging wildfires in the last four days as an unusually early summer has raised temperatures by two to three degrees Celsius above average. The state’s flora and fauna have suffered as a result of the climate change-induced extreme weather events. Wildfires have...
More »Extrapolated data hints at high Covid-19 death toll in Uttar Pradesh -GS Mudur
-The Telegraph The report by Citizens for Justice and Peace implies that the excess casualties between January 2020 and August 2021 were all caused by the virus A non-government human rights group has estimated that between January 2020 and August 2021, Uttar Pradesh witnessed nearly 1.4 million excess deaths or nearly 60 times the state’s official Covid-19 death toll of 23,382 till Saturday. Excess deaths means deaths over and above the figures expected...
More »Glacial burst at Sumna on the Indo-China border near Reni in Uttarakhand -Ishan Kukreti
-Down to Earth Sumna is an uninhabited place, with only border roads personnel working there; no word yet on casualties A glacier burst at a remote place on the Indo-China border in Uttarkhand on the afternoon of April 23, 2021, according to a senior official. There is no word yet of any casualties. “A glacier has burst near Uttarakhand’s Joshimath on the India-China border,” Colonel Manish Kapil, commander, Border Road Task Force, was...
More »Human-triggered fatal landslides are becoming frequent in the Himalayas and Western Ghats -Manu Moudgil
-Scroll.in/ IndiaSpend.com Twelve per cent of India’s land is prone to landslides, and the country accounted for 18% of worldwide deaths in such cases from 2004 to 2016. Six days of relentless rain had saturated the soil on the rolling slopes of Rajamala hamlet in Anamalai hills – which support tea and coffee plantations – in Idukki district of Kerala. On August 6, the downpour became especially torrential, forcing a portion of...
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