India’s climate crisis is no longer a distant threat; it’s an urgent, daily reality. The staggering statistics on extreme weather events in 2024 ~ over 3,200 lives lost, millions of hectares of farmland ruined, and countless homes and livestock destroyed ~ paint a grim picture of a nation bearing the brunt of climate change.
Meanwhile, in the Northeast, weather officials issued red flag warnings from New Jersey to Massachusetts after a bout of modest weekend rainfall failed to douse the region's wildfire threat
Japan's weather agency on Sunday urged Okinawa residents to be on high alert for mudslides and other disasters as torrential rains are drenching the country's southernmost prefecture.
Amid the fear of floods looming large over various districts of south Bengal, the weather department has tipped some relief…
Severe traffic congestion was reported in South and South-East Delhi due to the waterlogging forcing commuters to either wait for the rainwater to clear off the road or wade through it.
Several parts in the city also witnessed rain with the strong winds, the regional meteorological centre said in its bulletin.
According to the weather agency, temperature recorded a sudden fall during this period over Northwest India including Delhi.
Various components of the PRITHVI scheme are inter-dependent and are carried out in an integrated manner through combined efforts of the concerned Institutes under MoES.
As of right now, Delhi is colder than Shimla, the capital of Himachal Pradesh, where the lowest temperature was 6.8 degrees Celsius
At 327, the AQI at Dhirpur fell into the "severe" category. The classification of an AQI is as follows: 0–50 = "good", 51–100 = "satisfactory", 101–200 = "moderate", 201–300 = "poor", 301–400 = "very poor", and 401–500 = "severe"
