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

China will need to import foodgrain in the next 10 years

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