Windstorm: The recent windstorm in Zhemgang damaged 43 houses in three gewogs of Bardo, Phangkhar and Shingkhar.

Chennai Corporation plans to commission 50,000 rainwater harvesting structures along 1,000 km of roads.

“A number of rainwater harvesting structures installed on roads in Besant Nagar and Sastri Nagar are working well. Roads with 50,000 rainwater harvesting structures at an interval of 20 metres will significantly improve groundwater level,” said an official of Chennai Corporation.

Hisar recorded the maximum temperature of 45 degrees

Intense heat waves swept across Haryana and Punjab, including Chandigarh, for the second day on Thursday even as Hisar in Haryana recorded the maximum temperature of 45 degrees Celsius.

The summer's maiden showers coupled with thunderstorms claimed three lives and injured four others in north coastal Andhra on Thursday.

Researchers have found that increasing ocean temperatures due to climate change will soon see reefs retaining and nurturing more of their own coral larvae, leaving large reef systems less interconn

People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to get away from fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of rain fell on the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast in the span of about 24

20 lakh to 50 lakh people will migrate due to riverbank erosion, 30 lakh to 60 lakh due to inland flooding and 50 lakh to 70 lakh due to coastal storm surges

Damage caused by natural disasters has sharply been reduced since April 29, 1991 when a cyclonic storm ripped through the coastal region, killing nearly 138,882 people and 1,061,029 livestock.

At least 34 people across six states were killed in tornadoes unleashed by a ferocious storm system that razed neighborhoods and threatened more destruction in heavily populated parts of the U.S.