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 …
Itanagar: Unprecedented flood looms large at East Siang district of Arunachal Pradesh following reported formation of an artificial reservoir at Tsangpo river in Tibet following a massive blockade due to a landslide on April 27. According to official sources, people in the district as well as in Jonai sub-division, under …
Minister of Forests and Soil-Conservation Kiran Gurung has said global warming has made mountainous regions more vulnerable to floods, landslides and other natural catastrophes. Addressing a side-event
The Asian Development Bank (ADB) has promised to provide a grant assistance of $25.6 million to help restore economic activity in parts of Nepal devastated by last year's monsoon floods. More than 300,000 people living in the eastern and far western region of the country were seriously affected by the …
Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, Sixteen people were killed in a landslide which struck southern Kyrgyzstan, an official from the emergency situations ministry said on Thursday. Emergency situations minister Kamchybek Tashiyev said the landslide hit the village of Raikomol in the southern Jalal-Abad region late on Wednesday night. He cited a village resident …
Landslide destroyed six houses in the Newazantek village of Booni on Thursday. Residents of Booni, some 75 kilometres in the north of here, told Dawn by telephone that the houses had already been evacuated when boulders started rolling down from the hill. The dwellers had been shifted to the nearby …
A massive landslide yesterday around 1 pm at Takti, on the Phuentsholing-Thimphu highway, killed a Dantak site supervisor on the spot and swept away a tipper truck with its driver and assistant. Project Dantak
The government has approved a plan, with an outlay of Rs 6 crore, for the rehabilitation of Kuleth village in the Bharmour tribal area of Chamba district, as it was under an imminent threat of sliding down into the Ravi. Villagers were eagerly waiting for the restoration and protection of …
Evaluation of the morphometric parameters requires preparation of drainage map, contour map, ordering of the various streams and measurements of catchment area, perimeter, relative relief, relief ratio, length of drainage channels, drainage density, drainage frequency, bifurcation ratio, texture ratio, circulatory ratio and constant channel maintenance, which help to understand the …
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. This report on the current situations of Flood Hazard Map (FHM) development …
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 …
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. The effort is based on …
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
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 …
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. Days of heavy rain have devastated areas of Santa Catarina state, the heartland of German and …
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 …
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 …
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. Mud came tumbling down from hills surrounding Nyalindung, a village in West Java province, following days of torrential rain that …
A national consultative meeting on management of preventing natural disasters that take place in the South Asian countries kicked off in the capital on Wednesday. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Bamdev Gautam attended the inaugural function of the meeting organised by the European Commission (EC). The meeting …
