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BIMSTEC Disaster Management Exercise -2020
Why in News The 2nd Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) Disaster Management Exercise was...
15 Feb 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Rising CO2 Levels may Double Floods
Why in News The report “Impacts of Carbon Dioxide Emissions on Global Intense Hydro-meteorological Disasters” has established a link...
24 Jan 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News According to the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the year 2019 was the second-hottest year since records began in 1880. It...
17 Jan 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Statement on Climate of India during 2019: IMD
Why in News The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has released the ‘Statement on Climate of India during 2019’. Key...
08 Jan 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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North-East Monsoon Ends with 30% Surplus Rain
Why in News India witnessed a 30% surplus in total rainfall during the Northeast monsoon in 2019. October to December is recognised as the period...
03 Jan 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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One-fifth of the Country’s Forests Prone to Fire
Why in News Recently, the 2019 report by Forest Survey of India (FSI) was released. It states that about 21.40% of forest cover in India is prone to...
01 Jan 2020 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News On 26th December 2019, India experienced an Annular Solar eclipse of 0.97 magnitude, with 3 minutes and 39 seconds’ maximum...
27 Dec 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News The Philippines was hit by typhoon Phanfone on 25th December 2019. Typhoon Phanfone is known as Ursula in the local language in the...
26 Dec 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News Cheruvathur in Kasaragod district, Kerala is one of the three places in the world where the solar eclipse will be most clearly seen on...
20 Nov 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Why in News The India Meteorological Department (IMD) has issued an orange alert in Indian states of West Bengal and Odisha over Cyclone Bulbul in...
08 Nov 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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A depression that developed in the Comorin Sea (near the southernmost end of India) has intensified into a cyclonic storm, named...
31 Oct 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Cyclone Kyarr is a tropical cyclone that has intensified west of India in the Northern Indian Ocean’s Arabian Sea as a Category 4 storm with...
29 Oct 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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What is a Jet Stream? The Jet Stream is a geostrophic wind blowing horizontally through the upper layers of the troposphere, generally from west...
19 Aug 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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A New Way of Predicting Monsoon
A researcher at a science and technology conference organised in Vienna by the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organisation has come up with...
09 Jul 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Cosmic Rays Impacting Earth’s Climate
According to a study published in the Scientific Reports journal,the cosmic rays are impacting earth climate by adding low-cloud cover. Besides...
06 Jul 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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A Total Solar Eclipse was witnessed in the region of the South Pacific and parts of South America (Mainly Chile and Argentina) This was the only...
04 Jul 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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According to the India Meteorological Department, the deficiency in rainfall in June was 33%. With the El-Nino phenomenon being observed since the...
03 Jul 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Generally, across the world, the monsoons are experienced in the tropical area roughly between 20° N and 20° S. The climate of India is...
24 Jun 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Rare Easterly Winds over the Indian Ocean
Climate Prediction Centre of the US National Weather Service has said that unusually warm waters in the Arabian Sea have set up a rare band of...
14 Jun 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
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Organisations related to Disaster Management Framework at Global level In 1994 the World Conference on Natural Disaster Reduction was held in...
12 Jun 2019 Important Geophysical Phenomena
