In 2024, the Emergency Events Database (EM-DAT) recorded 393 natural hazard-related disasters. These events caused 16,753 fatalities and affected 167.2 million people. Economic losses totaled US$241.95 billion. The year 2024 was marked by extreme temperature events in Asia that caused thousands of deaths, severe droughts in Africa affecting over 25 …
More than 8,116 persons continued to be displaced due to floods and stormy conditions in eight districts during the past three days. The Met. Department said more windy conditions could be expected countrywide due to the cyclone, ‘JEBI’, near Vietnam. According to latest figures, issued by the Disaster Management Centre …
Stormy weather that raged across the country had killed one person and left four injured, Disaster Management Centre officials said yesterday. Assistant Director, Pradeep Kodippili, told The Island that over 3,000 persons of 326 families countrywide had been affected by heavy rains and stormy winds which had caused earth bunds …
A tropical storm with the potential to trigger serious flooding and mudslides was bearing down on Hawaii on Monday and authorities there cautioned residents and tourists to stay inside and off the roads. Tropical Storm Flossie was expected to strike the Big Island and Maui on Monday evening, with waves …
The world experienced unprecedented high-impact climate extremes during the 2001-2010 decade, which was the warmest since the start of modern measurements in 1850 and continued an extended period of pronounced global warming. More national temperature records were reported broken than in any previous decade, according to a new report by …
Dams are being built in different sizes depending on the requirements and the height permissible at the particular site. The higher a dam, the larger the concerns for undesirable impacts that have to be mitigated and the assurance that has to be given to everyone that the dam is not …
President Barack Obama's climate plan on Tuesday offered help to U.S. cities dealing with natural disasters and specifically for the region slammed by massive Superstorm Sandy in October. For Dawn Zimmer, mayor of Hoboken, New Jersey the plan came not a moment too soon. Hoboken, across the Hudson River from …
Project estimated to cost 6,500 cr; funds to be sought from World Bank The Bruhat Bangalore Mahanagara Palike has embarked on an ambitious plan to interlink 56 lakes in the City by connecting them to stormwater drains (SWDs). The lakes in Dasarahalli, Mahadevapura and Bommanahalli will be considered for the …
The cost of natural disasters in Australia is set to nearly quadruple by 2050 but could be dramatically reduced by national investment in preventive measures, a German reinsurer said Thursday. Munich Re said that, as Australia's population density increases as well as the severity and frequency of storms, floods, cyclones …
Excessive rain and hailstorm have caused colossal damage to crops in five upazilas of the district. Department of Agricultural Extension (DAE) sources said, around 15000 farmers in five upazilas of the district incurred a huge loss due to damage of crops worth Tk 10 crore. Rain and storms in May …
Severe weather of violent thunderstorms and possibly tornadoes hit parts of the upper Midwest on Wednesday, causing flights to be canceled and baseball games to be postponed in Chicago, the nation's third-largest city. Some 12 million people in four states live in the area at high risk of storms that …
Sri Lanka's Disaster Management Centre (DMC) says the death toll from the adverse weather that swept the south western part of the country now stands at 52. Another 16 people are still reported missing and 28 people have received injuries. The DMC has revised thedeath toll this morning to 52 …
The death toll from Saturday’s monsoon storm rose to 58, as more bodies of fishermen, who had set out to sea, were washed ashore in the last two days, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said yesterday (11). Disaster Management Minister Mahinda Amaraweera told a media briefing in Colombo yesterday, that …
New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg on Tuesday announced a $20 billion plan to prepare for rising sea levels and hotter summers expected as a result of climate change in the coming decades. The ambitious proposal - which could become the benchmark for other cities dealing with climate change - could …
A recently developed technique for simulating large [O(104)] numbers of tropical cyclones in climate states described by global gridded data is applied to simulations of historical and future climate states simulated by six Coupled Model Intercomparison Project 5 (CMIP5) global climate models. Tropical cyclones downscaled from the climate of the …
Oklahoma City: US rescue teams scoured a shattered suburb for survivors on Tuesday after a giant tornado tore through the outskirts of Oklahoma City, killing at least two dozen people, including nine children. State medical examiner’s office spokeswoman Amy Elliott told reporters 24 victims had been confirmed dead, scaling back …
The death toll in the cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' that battered Bangladesh's southwestern coastlines climbed to 46 yesterday as bodies of nine children were pulled out from the Bay of Bengal. The cyclonic storm 'Mahasen' battered the country's southwestern coastlines on thursday, damaging thousands of thatched houses and forcing evacuation of …
A woman was killed as a nor’wester swept over four unions in Daulatpur upazila on Saturday night, reports UNB. The deceased was identified as Amirun Nesa, 40, wife of Asir Ali of Sarishaduli village of Boalia union of the same upazila. The woman died on the spot when a coconut …
At least 10 people were killed and over 170 others injured as nor’wester lashed Khulna, Bagerhat and Barguna districts early hours of Thursday, reports UNB. Of them, four were killed in Khulna, three in Bagerhat and the rest in Barguna. In Khulna, four people were killed and 5,000 houses damaged …
A violent storm hit Sarail, Nabinagar and Kasba upazilas, leaving four people dead and over 300 thatched houses damaged on Tuesday , reports BSS. Locals said four people were killed and many more injured in lightning strikes during the storm in Sarail and Nabinagar upazilas. Three of the deceased were …
Cyclonic storms accompanied by lightning and rain continued to create havoc in Tripura for the fifth day on Thursday, killing seven people, including five women and injuring 20 others, an official said here. "Sixty-year-old Ramani Debbarma and her 17-year-old-son Utpal died when huge landslides buried their home at Simna in …
