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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Landslides affects normal life in Nagaland
Kohima: Normal life was affected and property worth Rs 20 lakh got damaged in landslides triggered by sporadic heavy to medium rainfall throughout Nagaland for the fourth consecutive day on Sunday. According to sources here, four houses were washed away in a heavy landslides on the night of June 22 at Officer Colony Old Police Line in Tuensang town. Some domestic animals like pigs were also washed away by the landslides besides damaging household properties.
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More than 70 feared dead in Afghan quakes
More than 70 people, most women and children, are feared dead after a landslide triggered by a double earthquake engulfed their Afghan village, officials said on Tuesday. Two shallow quakes less than
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Hill slide kills 2 in Sylhet
Two siblings were killed in a hill slide triggered by rains at Nayakhel Suryatila in Jointapur upazila of Sylhet on Tuesday. The deceased were Shahin Ahmed, 7, and Fahim Ahmed, 5, sons of day labourer
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Seven Nepali-speaking people killed in Sikkim landslide
Seven Nepali-speaking people including a three-month old were among 16 persons killed in multiple landslides that hit West Sikkim in India on Thursday night. According to Indian media reports, the highest
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North Korea lifts the veil on its agroforestry practices
A new study offers a rare glimpse into North Korea's agriculture and forestry policies, and may open up new international connections with the country, say researchers. The report describes how locally
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How safe are our rural structures? Lessons from the 2011 Sikkim Earthquake
Increasing frequency and intensity of earthquakes has renewed the urgency in improving the preparedness and in making the infrastructure earthquake-resistant. Sikkim, a northeastern Indian Himalayan state,
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U.N. Warns Agrofuel Growth May Breach Human Rights
Large-scale crop plantations are expanding at a rapid pace across southeast Asia, with multinational firms often benefiting the most at the expense of local communities and the environment, two U.N. rights
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Landslide Risk at Reservoir Cited in China
A growing threat of landslides on ground surrounding the massive Three Gorges Dam reservoir could force the government to relocate 100,000 more residents of the area, from which 46,000 were moved earlier,
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Landslide claims 8 lives in Nairobi
Massive boulders crashed onto houses on Wednesday in Mathare, a Nairobi slum, killing at least eight people after a night of heavy rains, police and the Kenyan Red Cross said. “Eight people have died
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Ecosystem approach to disaster risk reduction
This report is intended to provide an overview of the concept of ecosystem approach to disaster risk reduction (Eco-DRR), natural resource management and disaster linkages, incorporating Eco-DRR concepts