Nigeria annual flood outlook 2024
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
The 2024 Flood Outlook report offers a comprehensive assessment of flood risk across the country, highlighting critical areas of concern and strategic recommendations for mitigation and preparedness. Through
Authorities in Assam have enforced speed regulations on a highway along the famed Kaziranga National Park to prevent vehicles from hitting animals fleeing the sanctuary to escape a flood, officials said here on Monday. Kaziranga is the world
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Centre for Earth Science Studies (CESS) will organise a two-day workshop on `Natural Hazards, Disaster Mitigation and Management
SAMBALPUR: The festive spirit of Nuakhai is missing in Sambalpur with the shadow of drought looming large.
The last guard wall protecting a habitation of 25,000 people in Malda gave way this evening and the Fulhar rushed into one village after another. The water level in the bazaar at Bhaluka, about 500 metres from the river, was over two feet around 9pm. District officials said it was rising alarmingly and the only hope for the residents was the a local canal
Hyderabad/New Delhi, Aug. 21: The Chief Minister, Dr Y.S. Rajasekhar Reddy, has said the government would take a decision on declaring the state as drought hit on Monday after talks with bankers.
At least 27 people have died in northwestern Pakistan and nine are missing in flash floods since the weekend that have also destroyed houses, crops and livestock, the United Nations said Tuesday. "The final toll could be higher," Elisabeth Byrs, spokeswoman of the U.N. Office for Humanitarian Assistance (OCHA), told a news conference in Geneva.
Taiwan's cabinet approved a special T$100 billion ($2.9 billion) budget on Thursday for typhoon reconstruction after the worst storm in 50 years killed about 500 people and left destruction across the island's south. The cabinet passed the three-year reconstruction budget to cover rebuilding damaged areas, where farm and factory-related losses have amounted to some T$15 billion.
At a time when Jharkhand along with the rest of the country is battling drought, Giridih
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today cancelled its much-hyped public meeting scheduled here in the afternoon because of the fresh bout of landslides that struck the hills. The party top brass, however, continues to be tight-lipped on the expulsion of Jaswant Singh, who was elected MP from Darjeeling with Morcha support, from the BJP.
Aug. 20: The army has been called in Jalpaiguri and Cooch Behar to evacuate over 1,500 marooned families. More than 3,500 families in three north Bengal districts have been affected after the water level of the rivers passing through them rose.