カテゴリー: Drought
Centuries-old wells restored to provide drinking water as parts of the country head towards “day zero” when no water will be availableA loud cheer and sounds of clapping reverberated around Bansilalpet, a neighbourhood in Hyderabad, when the first tric…
Meanwhile, Iran grapples with one of worst droughts and temperatures fall 10C below normal in USMore heavy rainfall is expected in Sri Lanka in the coming days, likely resulting in further damage across the country. It comes after torrential rainfall i…
Chongqing authorities say cloud seeding to break heatwave did not cause winds that sent laundry flyingIt was the talk of the town. After the authorities sought to break a long-running heatwave in Chongqing by using cloud-seeding missiles to artificiall…
Heavy rainfall in Guangdong causes flooding, landslides and mudslides, while northern China gripped by heatwaveGuangdong province in southern China has once more experienced severe flooding, two months after the late April floods and landslides led to …
With heatwaves becoming more frequent in Bengaluru and other cities across the country, climate planning must look to people on the margins, experts sayVenkatachala starts his day early, neatly arranging jasmine, roses, chrysanthemums and crossandras o…
As the climate crisis forces people to abandon their land in Rajasthan, a new industry has sprung up in the desert state, with thousands of gaily decorated vans setting off to sell ice-cream across the countryThe parched villages of Gangapur in the des…
The resort island is facing days without running water, even as the country celebrates new year with water fightsAcross Thailand, people are getting ready to take to the streets for a giant water fight to mark the new year. Roads will be lined with ven…
In rural Rajasthan, villagers have taken action against climate damage by constructing water-saving walls, trenches and dams to revive their farmlandThe villagers of Surajpura have built a wall: a 15ft (4.5 metre) mud bulwark that snakes through barren…
The south Asian country is a world leader in climate adaptation, but without more funding the country will struggle to protect its people, a report warns As far back as she can remember, Shahanaz Ali has been running from cyclones. “Moving constantly f…
The climate crisis and farmers opting to grow more lucrative timber is putting many bat-makers in Kashmir out of businessFor more than 100 years they have been making cricket bats from Kashmir’s willow trees. Along the highway leading to the town of Sa…
People rush to stockpile bottled water amid emergency measures at reservoirs after record droughtA wave of panic buying has swept Shanghai in recent days, as rumours swirled of drinking water shortages despite assurances from local authorities that sup…
Average temperature in August was 1.2C higher than norm, which caused widespread droughtChina recorded its highest temperatures and one of its lowest levels of rainfall in 61 years during a two-month summer heatwave that caused forest fires, damaged cr…
Forest fires, droughts and heatwaves across the country is forcing provinces to reduce power consumptionThere were still some streetlights on the Bund, one of the main roads in central Shanghai. But the decorative lights which light up the city skyline…
Local authorities told to take measures and ‘use every unit of water carefully’ in effort to save autumn harvestA drought in China is threatening food production, prompting the government to order local authorities to take all available measures to ens…
Nationwide alert issued with south-west especially badly hit, as major companies forced to suspend workA record-breaking drought has caused some rivers in China – including parts of the Yangtze – to dry up, affecting hydropower, halting shipping, and f…