Extreme weather is transforming the world’s rivers.
In the summer of 2022, extreme heat and unprecedented drought drove parts of the world’s third-largest river, the Yangtze, to dry up.
In the summer of 2022, extreme heat and unprecedented drought drove parts of the world’s third-largest river, the Yangtze, to dry up.
The croc emerged from nowhere to lunge at Soudamini Mohala, who had gone to the bathing ghat at the Kharasrota river to wash utensils.
The death toll in north Bengal’s devastating natural calamities has climbed to 29, with five more deaths reported from Nagrakata in Jalpaiguri district following incessant rainfall and rising river waters.
The crocodile attacked Laxmi Dalei at the Gobari riverbed near Benakanda village under the Mahakalpada forest range on Friday noon, while the victim, a traditional fisherwoman, was catching fish.
The Sone River at Maner in Patna is also in severe condition, at 52.99 m, nearly a metre above danger level.
A high-level delegation, led by additional chief secretary of the state government, Manish Jain, visited Arambagh to review the pre-flood situation and assess the current condition of the river embankments.
Rivers are nature’s song', the saying, in the many years it has been around, has never succumbed to being incorrect or even exaggerated.
State irrigation and waterways minister Manas Bhuniya today held an emergency meeting with concerned authorities in Siliguri to address the alarming shift in the course of the Teesta river, triggered by a massive surge of water from Sikkim following heavy monsoon rains.
Despite repeated scientific warnings about the fragile geology and increasing disaster vulnerability of the Teesta river basin, north Sikkim is once again in crisis.
It was once said that future wars would not be fought over land or ideology, but over something far more elemental water. As the 21st century unfolds, this prophecy seems to be inching closer to reality.
