Mumbai rain: Railway tracks submerged, flight services disrupted, schools and colleges closed
Aug 19, 2025, at 01:13 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: Railway tracks are submerged while flight services have been disrupted as normal lives have been disrupted by heavy rain in Mumbai and its suburbs, media reports said.
Heavy rain batters Mumbai, schools and colleges shut, train and flight services affected
Aug 18, 2025, at 02:35 pm
Mumbai/IBNS: Schools and colleges are shut, several areas are waterlogged as heavy rain battered Mumbai and its surrounding areas on Monday, media reports said.
Flash floods hit China, 9 dead
Aug 17, 2025, at 08:00 pm
At least nine people died, and three others went missing after flash floods hit a wild camping site in northern China, with heavy rains continuing to wreak havoc in the world's second-largest economy.
Kishtwar cloudburst: Toll rises to 60, Army continues rescue ops
Aug 15, 2025, at 11:13 pm
The death toll in the flash flood triggered by a cloudburst in Chashoti village of Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district rose to 60, media reports said on Friday.
Pakistan: 60 die as heavy rains trigger flash floods in KP
Aug 15, 2025, at 04:51 pm
Flash floods battered various districts of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa in Pakistan, leaving at least 60 people dead, media reports said on Friday.
J&K: Kishtwar flash flood leaves at least 46 dead, 100 injured; Army joins rescue ops
Aug 14, 2025, at 10:06 pm
At least 46 people, including two CISF (Central Industrial Security Force) personnel, died and 100 were injured after a massive cloudburst unleashed a flash flood in the Chashoti village of Jammu and Kashmir's Kishtwar district on Thursday afternoon, media reports said.
Aug 14, 2025, at 04:42 pm
Kishtwar (J&K): At least 12 people lost their lives this afternoon after a massive cloudburst unleashed a flash flood in Chashoti village of Jammu and Kashmir’s Kishtwar district.
UN weather agency says extreme weather is breaking records worldwide
Aug 08, 2025, at 09:28 am
Extreme heat is breaking records around the world, with wildfires and poor air quality compounding the crisis, according to a report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released Thursday.
Uttarkashi cloudburst: Death toll rises to 5, rescue operation still underway
Aug 06, 2025, at 12:52 pm
Dehradun/IBNS: The death toll in the flash floods caused by cloudburst in Uttarakhand's Uttarkashi rose to five while several others are still missing, media reports said.
Nine soldiers feared missing after flash floods hit Uttarakhand army camp in Harshil
Aug 06, 2025, at 01:22 am
Nine soldiers are missing after an army camp in Uttarakhand's Harshil was hit by flash floods on Tuesday, media reports said.
Cloudburst triggers massive landslide in Uttarakhand, 4 dead, scores missing
Aug 05, 2025, at 04:22 pm
A cloud burst and resultant massive landslide in Uttarkashi’s Dharali village in Uttarakhand on Tuesday left at least four people dead and 50 others missing, media reports said.
Plastic pollution talks get underway in Geneva
Aug 05, 2025, at 10:08 am
Efforts are getting underway in Geneva to finalize a global agreement to tackle the staggering and growing amount of plastic waste and its impact on human health, marine life and the economy.
Magnitude 3.0 earthquake felt across New York, no casualty
Aug 03, 2025, at 04:41 pm
An earthquake measuring 3.0 on the Richter Scale hit New York on Saturday, with no casualties reported due to the tremor that shook the American city.
Krasheninnikov Volcano in Russia's Kamchatka erupts for 1st time in 600 years
Aug 03, 2025, at 01:40 pm
The Krasheninnikov Volcano in Kamchatka has erupted for the first time in 600 years and experts have connected it to the huge earthquake that rocked Russia's Far East last week, Russia's RIA state news agency reported on Sunday.
Tsunami waves hit coasts of Japan, US after 8.8 magnitude earthquake in Russia
Jul 31, 2025, at 01:27 am
Strong tsunami waves hit across the Pacific Ocean in Japan and Hawaii following the 8.8 magnitude that struck Russia's Far East early Wednesday, media reports said.
Tsunami hits Japan, Russia after strong 8.8 magnitude earthquake strikes Pacific
Jul 30, 2025, at 09:24 am
An earthquake measuring 8.8 on the Richter Scale, one of the strongest recorded in recent times, hit Russia's Far East on Wednesday, triggering a tsunami in the northern Pacific region.
Pakistan: Monsoon-related incidents leave 13 people, mostly children, dead in KP
Jul 23, 2025, at 05:41 pm
Severe monsoon-related incidents in Pakistan's Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region have left at least 13 people, including nine children, dead in the past 48 hours, media reports said.
Droughts are causing record devastation worldwide, reveals UN-backed report
Jul 22, 2025, at 08:55 am
Worldwide, some of the most widespread and damaging drought events in recorded history have occurred in recent years due to climate change and resource depletion.
3.7 magnitude earthquake hits near Haryana’s Jhajjar, tremors felt in Delhi-NCR
Jul 11, 2025, at 11:32 pm
An earthquake measuring 3.7 on the Richter Scale struck near Jhajjar in Haryana on Friday evening, sending tremors across parts of Delhi-NCR, the National Centre for Seismology said.
Nine die after flash flood devastates Nepal-China border, road to border port reopens
Jul 11, 2025, at 06:18 pm
The section of the National Highway 216 leading to Gyirong Port in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region, which was damaged due to the flash flood which hit the region on Thursday, was reopened on Friday.
Tremors felt in Delhi-NCR after earthquake of 4.4 magnitude strikes Haryana's Jhajjar
Jul 10, 2025, at 10:13 am
New Delhi/IBNS: Strong tremors were felt in the Delhi-NCR region after an Earthquake of 4.4 magnitude struck Haryana's Jhajjar on Thursday morning, media reports said.
Jul 01, 2025, at 06:46 pm
According to a new research paper, there are associated health benefits to adding more nature in cities, but where you add it matters. More green spaces in densely populated areas save the most human lives, followed by green spaces in areas with the least amount of nature. The study included five Indian cities, where increasing green spaces by just 1% could prevent at least 875 deaths, comparable to the annual death toll in Bengaluru due to road accidents. Mongabay India writer Nikhil Sreekandan reports
Tide of change in Philippines as women revive watersheds and livelihoods
Jun 29, 2025, at 09:46 pm
In the coastal town of Sasmuan, Philippines, life flows with the river’s tide. At dawn, slender boats glide through calm waters as fishing nets are cast beneath the warming sky.
Monsoon set to cover India ahead of schedule, boosting crop sowing prospects
Jun 26, 2025, at 08:10 pm
Mumbai: India’s annual monsoon is poised to blanket the entire country within the next three to four days, over a week earlier than its usual timeline, media reports said.
Asia is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world: WMO
Jun 24, 2025, at 07:23 pm
In April 2024, China broke the average temperature record that month. The following month, it was the same - and then again in August. And September. And November.
Global push to end plastic pollution gains ground in Nice conference
Jun 13, 2025, at 02:10 pm
Behind closed doors, in a domed conference pavilion steps away from the historic port of Nice, more than 40 ministers gathered on Tuesday to tackle one of the planet’s fastest-growing environmental threats: plastic pollution.
Antonio Guterres calls for an end to ocean ‘plunder’ as UN summit opens in France
Jun 09, 2025, at 06:50 pm
With the Mediterranean glittering in the background, UN Secretary-General António Guterres opened the Third United Nations Ocean Conference on Monday, delivering a blunt indictment of humanity’s fractured relationship with the sea.
Delhi sizzles past 40°C for first time in June, IMD issues yellow alert for four days
Jun 08, 2025, at 09:39 pm
New Delhi: Delhi residents reeled under intense heat on Sunday as the mercury climbed past the 40 degrees Celsius mark for the first time this June.
Drifting architects: Plankton, climate, and the race to understand our changing ocean
Jun 08, 2025, at 08:27 pm
They drift unseen, but everything depends on them. Plankton – the ocean’s lifeblood – regulate the climate, feed the seas, and shape life on Earth. On the French Riviera, scientists are racing to unlock their secrets before the hush of their decline echoes across the planet.
India's 'Tiger Man' Valmik Thapar dies after battling cancer
May 31, 2025, at 07:14 pm
Renowned conservationist Valmik Thapar, who is widely known as India's ‘Tiger Man’, died after battling cancer on Saturday.