State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing
Landslides
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Water induced disasters, flood hazard mapping & Koshi flood disaster of Nepal
In Nepal, disaster mitigation is considered as a humanitarian activity and more focus is given on post disaster activity. This report prepared for East & Southeast Asia regional seminar on flood hazard mapping, 17-19 Feb, 2009, Manila, Philippines.
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Bringing down the Himalayas
If you are talking about the Himalayas, then Mountains of Concrete is not a very apt title for a report in many ways. In fact, when a meeting to launch this report in Delhi was announced, some officials of the water resources establishment were angry. They felt this was an insult to the dam building plans of the government.
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Himalayan nations to discuss glacial threat
Aditi Tandon Tribune News Service New Delhi, January 14 With glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFs) posing a huge development challenge to the countries in the Himalayan belt, the UNDP Bureau for Crisis Prevention yesterday said it would hold a special workshop to discuss the issue.
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RTI answers cloud acts aim
RAJEEV RAVIDAS Kalimpong, Jan. 8: The District Disaster Management Authority (DDMA), Darjeeling, in response to certain queries under the provisions of the Right to Information Act has provided what could only be described as
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An integrated approach to climate change adaptation
It is now apparent that dealing with climate change is unavoidable. Nepal
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Report on treatment of land slide and erosion control project under TDET - South Sikkim
Sikkim is facing great challenge to protect the natural resource from land degradation and erosion. The whole state of Sikkim is hilly and cris-crossed by number of streams. Soil erosion is one of the major problems. The hills of Sikkim mainly consist of gneissose and half-schistose rocks, making their soil brown clay, and generally poor and shallow.
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Brazil landslides kill 84, leaving towns isolated
Isolated towns in southern Brazil appealed for medicine and other supplies on Tuesday as the deaths from landslides rose to 84 and thousands of people remained cut off from aid, clean water and power.
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Eight Corpses Recovered From Colombian Mudslide
Eight bodies have been recovered from the wreckage left by a mudslide that swept away part of an upscale neighbourhood in the Colombian city of Medellin, authorities said on Monday. Four other victims have not been recovered, emergency officials said. The mudslide in El Poblado, Medellin's most affluent district, swept away houses as their occupants slept early on Sunday morning.
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One Dead, 15 Missing After Colombian Mudslide
A 12-year-old boy was killed and 15 people were missing and feared dead after a mudslide destroyed part of an upscale neighbourhood in the Colombian city of Medellin on Sunday, local authorities said. The northern industrial city, like much of the rest of Colombia, has been hit by seasonal rains that have saturated the earth, leading to deadly avalanches in hilly areas.
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Indonesian landslide: 15 feared dead
Jakarta: Rescuers searched for survivors on Friday after a landslide crashed into a village in central Indonesia, killing two people and burying at least 13 others, a disaster official said.