Chennai cannot avoid floods and droughts, says Balaji Narasimhan, professor with the department of civil engineering at IIT-M, who works with the govt to design low-impact development (LID) measures ...

Scientists discovered that a week of full submergence is enough to kill most rice plants, making flooding a far greater threat than previously understood. Intensifying extreme rainfall events may ...

Rain is expected to develop over a large portion of the south-central United States this week, signaling the end of the current stretch of warm, dry weather. The change in pattern will raise the risk ...