More than 400 lives lost, 94 missing and thousands of hectares of crops destroyed in Vietnam

The human cost of the cyclone in Orissa is very high. So is the cost of the damage to the environment. The failure of the state machinery in handling this crisis is only going to make matters worse. At present, chaos reigns supreme in the affected areas

Siltation, deforestation and now the cyclone. It s bad times for Chilika, Asia s largest brackish water lake

MIHIR R BHATT, honorary director of the Disaster Mitigation Institute, Ahmedabad, spoke to Down To Earth about the lessons unlearnt from several natural disasters that have taken place in India. The problem lies within our sys

The United Nations has decided to prepare a US $50-million action plan for the cyclone-affected areas of Orissa. A grade 5 cyclone hit the state on October 29. The super-cyclone ravaged numerous

Nearly 600 houses were destroyed by torrential rain and gale force winds at Medirigirya in Sri Lanka recently. The government has already sent rations to the affected areas. The

A super cyclone has left Orissa shattered and blown away India s claims of managing itself during a natural disaster

A deadly cyclone causes large scale devastation in Orissa. Authorities fail on all counts

local governments in Japan have voiced concern over their own vulnerability to quakes. Experts say that an earthquake with a magnitude of 8 on the Richter scale could strike at any time along