For more than a decade now, Orissa has been reeling under contrasting extreme weather conditions: from heat waves to cyclones; from droughts to floods. Calamities have been visiting the state with alarming regularity.

Frequent deluge engulfs new areas and assumes monstrous proportions

The Hirakud dam does not control flood, it causes it

The frequency of droughts has made even traditionally water rich regions fall under the spectre of death

The 1999 super cyclone has put the state s development clock back by two decades

The debate whether climatic changes trigger calamities continues. But there is no doubt that environmental degradation wrecks havoc on Orissa

People s perception of local climate change

Environmental degradation causes a plethora of