Although Mumbai is trying to build itself into a global financial hub, parts of the city struggle to cope during annual monsoon rains. Floods in 2005 killed more than 500 people in the city. The majority of deaths occurred in shanty town slums, which are home to more than half of Mumbai...
Normal summer monsoon rains are present in fifteen (15) out of twenty-seven (27) years (55%), with SAI values between − 0.2 and 0.2. On the other hand, seven (7, 26%) years received deficit monsoon, and five (5) years received excess summer monsoon rains (19%) in the study pe...
501 City Roads Dug Up, Brace for Waterlogged Monsoon: With Less Than a Month to Go before the Rains Hit Mumbai, the Condition of Roads Is a Cause for Concern. with This Series DNA Explores What the City ExpectsDutta, Amrita Nayak
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th assessment report asserts that when the global temperature threshold of 1.5 °C is exceeded, extreme precipitation events will severely impact large cities in subcontinental India including the cities of Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai, which have ...
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 6th assessment report asserts that when the global temperature threshold of 1.5 °C is exceeded, extreme precipitation events will severely impact large cities in subcontinental India including the cities of Kolkata, Chennai and Mumbai, which have ...