Friday, August 29, 2025, marks the twentieth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, a weather event that rapidly became a significant social and political catastrophe kill…| BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY
Interestingly only on Aug 18, villagers had organized a large gathering (Maha Panchayat) in Ghudasi village against raising of Surwal dam’s height from 11 to 15 feet without consultation and compensation. The villagers stated that increasing of the dam’s height has been submerging farmlands of dozens of upstream villages. They demanded reducing dam’s height back to 11 feet. They warned if the demand is not met, they would intensify the protest.| SANDRP
A flash flood in Kupara khad on the intervening night of June 28-29, 2025 had first partially blocked the flows of Yamuna River at the same location. About 9 workers had gone missing due to ‘cloudburst’ induced flash flood on that night at Silai Bend about 5 km downstream of Syana Chatti.| SANDRP
A team of geologists observed that a large amount of debris and water came and accumulated in the stream (Tel gaad) at its point of confluence with the Bhagirathi River and formed a large fan-shaped deposit (alluvial fan) of sediments. This fan with saturated sediments obstructed the original channel of the Bhagirathi River and formed a temporary lake on the right bank of the river. The high moisture content in fan area prevented use of heavy machinery.| SANDRP
RNZ Pacific Fire engulfed the Marshall Islands Nitijela (Parliament building) just after midnight on last night with firefighters risking their lives as they battled the blaze early today in a bid to save the complex. “Sometime around midnight or shortly after this morning, the Parliament building in Majuro caught fire, started burning,” RNZ Pacific’s correspondent| Asia Pacific Report
COMMENTARY: By Richard David Hames So here we are, 2025, and Israel has finally achieved what no terrorist group, no hostile neighbour, no antisemitic tyrant ever could: it has become the most dangerous country on earth — for its own people. Not because of rockets or boycotts, but because its government has decided that the| Asia Pacific Report
On August 6, 1945, an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima. About 40% of the estimated 350,000 inhabitants died before the year ended. This is the story of a 19-year-old nurse who miraculously survived.| OLD PHOTOS of JAPAN
(Feature Image: Mud, debris following flashfloods at Dharali) The following Indian Express report highlights some key aspects of the Oct 2020 guidelines from the National Disaster Management Authority related to disasters caused by Glacial Lake Outburst Floods (GLOF). Unfortunately, as is clear from the recent Dharali disaster most key aspects of the guidelines remain unimplemented… Continue reading DRP 110825: Non-Implementation of NDMA’s 2020 GLOF Guidelines Worsened Dharali Disaster| SANDRP
The frightening debris-laden flash flood disaster at Dharali town along Kheer Gad-Bhagirathi river just 20 km downstream of Gangotri at around 1.30 pm on Tuesday, Aug 5 has demolished over 40 buildings, with scores of people, including nine army jawans, reported missing (the numbers could go up as per several geologists) and at least five… Continue reading Dharali Disaster in Uttarakhand: Amplified by Human Causes| SANDRP
Whenever a train approached Bridgeport’s “Jenkins Curve,” the sharpest curve of the New Haven Railroad system, safety regulations required the engineer to slow down to 30 m…| Today in Connecticut History
Last Monday, 7/14/2025, NPR ran an interview with a woman who lived through the flood on Texas’s Guadalupe River, a terrible story and I paraphrase: The flood blew down her back door and filled the house, water pressure wouldn’t let her open the door to her 95-year old mother’s bedroom, so she had to get […]| The Last Word On Nothing
Let’s not bury the lede. If you want to decrease the risk from events like this, you should oppose the dismemberment of the research arm of NOAA as currently proposed in the 2026 budget. Later on GG will explain… Pictures from Texas remind those of us in Boulder of our 1000-year rainstorm nearly 12 years […]| The Grumpy Geophysicist
Massive landslide at Bhalukhop (Kalimpong district) on 29Jul2021, following 232mm rainfall in 13hrs. Nature has slowly healed this area over a 4 year period without any engineering mitigation measures being applied.| Visions of Hell
Early in the morning of June 28th, 1983, at around 1:30 am, a 100-foot span of Interstate 95 in Greenwich collapsed into the Mianus River. It was one of the most infamous American bridge dis…| Today in Connecticut History
Leave it to DARPA to turn disaster relief into a competitive sport for robots, and for Google to walk away with the prize. On Saturday, 16 robotics teams from around the world competed in the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials for 2013, as part of DARPA’s project for developing robots capable of…| New Atlas
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This shows once again, that NHAI or the Ministry of Road Transport has no confidence inspiring system to firstly ensure that projects have adequate drainage component so that not only the road sust…| SANDRP
The available media reports clearly show that several extreme weather events fuelled by WDs have struck the Northwest and Northeast Himalayan states in pre-monsoon months in 2025, killing at least …| SANDRP
Landsat images show that in the past 40 years alone, Louisiana’s coastal wetlands have undergone substantial changes.| Landsat Science | A joint NASA/USGS Earth observation program.
With Landsat Next's 26 new spectral bands, we'll be able to see our planet like never before. Landsat Next’s enhanced capabilities will provide scientists, farmers, and decision-makers with critical data to tackle global challenges. The post Beyond the Visible: Landsat Next’s New Spectral Bands first appeared on Landsat Science.| Landsat Science
Using NASA data, researchers can track vegetation changes around the planet, not just in forests but also in grasslands and savannas like the Brazilian Cerrado. The post Spotting Disruptions to Earth’s Vegetation first appeared on Landsat Science.| Landsat Science
Western Canadian beef producers discuss how they're dealing with several years of drought.| Canadian Cattlemen
In our commercialized world, there are so many products begging you to buy them – especially around Christmas time. It can be difficult to find gifts for people who simply don’t seem to need anything! No matter how many fun games, electronics, vacations, or furniture someone might have, none of that will benefit them in […] The post Ultimate List of 20+ Emergency Preparedness Christmas Gifts appeared first on PreparednessMama.| PreparednessMama
Lindsay Mackie introduces New Weather’s new pamphlet, Unprepared, co-authored with David Boyle and Andrew Simms, which argues that an age The post Unprepared – why disaster planning needs to go local appeared first on New Weather Institute.| New Weather Institute
In Taiwan, earthquakes are linked to shallow stores of magma. New research explores this connection by linking land surface temperature with earthquakes.| Landsat Science | A joint NASA/USGS Earth observation program.
Florida Governor Ron DeSantis, in coordination with an equally myopic and partisan Florida Legislature, has approved new state legislation (HB 1645) that eliminates the term “climate change” from numerous existing Florida statutes that former Republican Governor Charlie Crist signed into law in 2008. The legislation, which takes effect on July 1st, is not just symbolic: … Continue reading "Florida Governor DeSantis’ Head-In-The-Sand Climate Change Policies"| Legal Planet
Earlier this month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit issued an order that likely ends one of the most closely-watched climate change lawsuits in recent American legal history: Juliana v. United States. The background of this litigation–which was filed in federal district court in Oregon in 2015–has been analyzed at length in … Continue reading "Ninth Circuit Short-Circuits Juliana v. U.S. Climate Change Lawsuit"| Legal Planet
LGBTQ people are at greater risk of climate change harms compared to straight couples. Right-wing media thinks it's a punchline.| Legal Planet
A new study using NASA satellite data reveals how drought affects the recovery of western ecosystems from fire, a result that could provide meaningful information for conservation efforts.| Landsat Science | A joint NASA/USGS Earth observation program.
NASA's Harmonized Landsat and Sentinel-2 (HLS) project is a groundbreaking initiative that combines data from Landsats 8 & 9 with the European Space Agency's Sentinel-2A & 2B satellites.| Landsat Science | A joint NASA/USGS Earth observation program.
Many of you may have heard about the tornado that tore through Springfield, MA, and surrounding towns on June 1, 2011. One man, Michael Roescher, was home with his step-daughter and their seven cats when the tornado leveled their house. … Continue reading →| Lost Cats Found
There was recently a story in the news about a woman near Boston whose apartment burned while she wasn’t home and whose dog was assumed dead. However, nearly one month later, her dog was fou…| Lost Cats Found
In May 1937, the German-manufactured airship LZ-129 Hindenburg, at the time the largest airship by length and volume, caught fire … More| Dark Tales
A burst fermenting vat filled with beer resulted in a flood that caused eight deaths in 19th century London| Dark Tales
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