An overview of the failure of the government to install adequate infrastructure in preparation for natural disasters is presented. Details of the effect of the floods on the country's rural poor are outlined. The impact of the rapid rotation of civil servants in India is explored.Wonacott...
The video was originally published on YouTube in 2019, meaning it predates the country’s recent floods. Fact Check: At least 41 people have been killed as a result of heavy rains and flash floods in Northern India, according toCNN. New Delhi officials raced to open up jammed flood gates...
The lives and livelihoods of millions dwelling across the IGP are profoundly affected by this behavior of dipole pattern of monsoon rainfall over India with extreme floods and droughts10,11,12. This has emerged as a pivotal subject within the monsoon research community. Recent research conducted by...
Studies of the multi-scale climate variability of the Asian monsoon are essential to an advanced understanding of the physical processes of the global climate system. In this paper, the progress achieved in this field is systematically reviewed, with a focus on the past several years. The achieve...
characterised by considerable increases and a succession of droughts and floods. The 25thand 95thpercentiles experienced a sharp decline, reaching levels of groundwater depletion. Specifically, the 25thpercentile dropped to 117 m, while the 95thpercentile decreased to 136 m. By the end of the ...
Great earthquake events could cause massive casualties and ecological destruction (Wei et al., 2021; Fan et al., 2022), and induce secondary geological hazards including debris flows (Cui et al., 2012), landslides (Xu et al., 2018; Zhang et al., 2021c) and outburst floods (Wu et al....
Natural-made resources include disaster sites after earthquakes, floods, hurricanes, and tsunamis [38,39]. The construction waste originating from high-rise and infrastructure buildings may result in a considerable amount of construction materials being wasted at the construction site due to improper ...
Floods in the Indian subcontinent have affected habitat, population, economy, etc. Due to the detrimental effects of recent floods on the economy, governance, etc., it is imperative to understand the associated dynamics, manifestations and fallouts for proper policy planning recommendations. The ...
The Mahanadi river basin, a major river basin in eastern India, is expected to be the worst affected river basins in India in terms of the increase in intensity of floods due to climate change. The last decade has already seen five high floods occurring in the Mahanadi basin. Are these ...
Several modelling studies have also been conducted in recent years, where RAMMS model has been used for modelling debris floods and debris flows (Fig. 4) (Bezak et al. 2020, 2021a). Fig. 4 A typical RAMMS modelling result for the Urbas landslide (Koroška Bela Municipality, Slovenia) in...