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 serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
Beijing: With rescuers finding 11 bodies more than two days after a goldmine subsided in Tibet, hopes of saving the remaining 72 miners receded with unnamed officials saying on Sunday they were feared dead. Hampering operations was the break down of the excavator and severe damage to the narrow roads …
Beijing: A massive landslide swept through a gold mining area in mountainous Tibet early on Friday, burying 83 workers believed to have been asleep at the time, Chinese state media said. About 2 million cubic metres of mud, rock and debris engulfed the area and covered an area measuring around …
Six people were killed and 18 were missing today after they were buried in a landslide caused by heavy rain on Indonesia’s Java island. “Heavy rains early this morning in West Bandung district triggered a landslide,” national disaster management agency spokesman Sutopo Purwo Nugroho said. “Six people were found dead …
Should that work, it will bring in an additional USD 250,000 for other landslide-prone areas across the country With approaching monsoon months, landslides and roadblocks along highways cutting across the country’s steep topography impends. Of the many landslide-prone stretches across the country, the one at Rinchending, the main link of …
Landslides triggered by heavy rains killed at least 24 people in the mountains above Rio de Janeiro and prompted Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff to call for tougher action to eradicate precarious dwellings. Firemen on Friday recovered the bodies of three children who were swept away by floods in the worst …
At least 16 people have been killed in landslides in a mountainous area north of Rio de Janeiro, after heavy rains. The landslides hit the city of Petropolis, about 40 miles (65km) north of Rio, after a river burst its banks and flooded the city centre. A baby and two …
Itanagar: Thousands of people led by the Buddhist monks and nuns descended on the streets of Tawang yesterday demanding scrapping of mega hydro projects and to protest against corrupt dealings in the district. This was third and the biggest in the series of protests which started in April last year …
A regional squad of the Revenue Department will conduct intensive checking in various locations of Vadakara taluk following complaints from people’s representatives that illegal mining thrives in the area in the absence of a proper checking mechanism. Most exploited People’s representatives, who raised the complaint in a recent meeting of …
Four children were among 17 people killed over the weekend in central Indonesia after heavy rains triggered floods and landslides, officials said on Monday. The children, aged between two and nine, died along with 13 adults when flooding and landslides hit the northern part of Sulawesi island early Sunday, provincial …
Rescuers search for the victims of a landslide in Manado, North Sulawesi, Indonesia, 17 February 2013 Search-and-rescue teams are in the areas affected by the landslide Flooding and landslides in the Indonesian province of North Sulawesi have left at least 15 people dead, officials say. On Sunday thousands of people …
Rain on Monday lashed Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and the adjoining tribal areas killing six people and injuring 15. Weather pundits forecast more rain and snowfall. Snowfall and landslide in the province has cut off many areas from other parts of the country. A woman and her two children were killed, while …
A large-scale landslide has collapsed 35 residential houses in mountainous Zhenxiong county in Southwest China's Yunnan province, local authorities said Thursday. Starting Monday, the gradually deteriorating landslide has affected the life of 712 villagers in Zhongtun township, according to the Zhenxiong county government. The landslide also damaged 928 houses in …
Three youths were killed on Thursday in a mudslide in a ditch dug for gambling in a bamboo orchard at Mahibag Balatari in Rangpur. Locals and the police said that Limon, 16, son of Azad Miah, Shakil, 17, son of Shiraj Miah, and Bappi, 15, son of Sundar Ali, were …
At least 11 people have died and several others have been injured in two separate landslides in western Indonesia, officials have said. In Agam district, in West Sumatra province, 15 houses were buried beneath mud and rocks, killing seven. Hundreds of people were forced to flee their homes on the …
State Accepts Majority Proposals, Rejects Those On Building Code, Dams Thiruvananthapuram: The state government has accepted a majority of recommendations made by the Western Ghats Ecology Expert Panel. This was conveyed to Dr K Kasturirangan committee that visited the state last week. The expert review committee is reviewing the Madhav …
Fifty million yuan ($8.06 million) has been allocated for disaster relief in Southwest China's Yunnan province where a landslide killed 46, the Ministry of Finance (MOF) announced Wednesday. The emergency fund will be used to relocate disaster-affected people, subsidize their living, rebuild houses and used as solatium for family members …
Landslides hit Bogor district of West Java on Tuesday morning, killing two people and leaving three others missing, Sutopo Purwo Nugroho, spokesman of the disaster management and mitigation agency, told Xinhua by phone.
At least 46 people, including children, are now known to have been killed by a landslide in China's southern Yunnan province, state media report. The bodies of the last two missing residents of the Gaopo village, Yunnan province, were found in the morning, Xinhua news agency says. The landslide hit …
A landslide in southwestern China on Friday killed at least 18 people, including seven from one family, while more than two dozen others were trapped, local authorities and state media said. A total of 46 people were buried in the disaster in landslide-prone Yunnan province, the official Xinhua news agency …
Longer summer, shorter winter observed in many places. The weather pattern in Bhutan has become unpredictable. The country, in recent times, has witnessed erratic rainfall, crop and livestock diseases, landslides, water shortages, and hailstorms. The situation is grave now with Bhutanese national parks increasingly becoming vulnerable to the effects of …
