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 …
Nine people were killed when floods inundated an old people's home in Japan, police said on Wednesday, taking the death toll from a typhoon battering northern parts of the country to at least 11. Police found nine bodies on Wednesday in the nursing home in the town of Iwaizumi, in …
A freak lightning storm has killed 323 reindeer in a remote mountainous area of Norway, officials said on Monday. Dead animals were found lying on top of each other, many with their antlers entangled, after the thunderstorm on the Hardanger plateau in southern Norway on Friday. "We've never had anything …
More than 100 flights were canceled and evacuation warnings were issued for thousands of people as a powerful typhoon approached Japan's northeast on Tuesday, a region devastated by a massive earthquake and tsunami five years ago. Typhoon Lionrock was expected to make landfall in the northeast Tohoku region later on …
While international efforts are under way to help keep dwindling populations of monarch butterflies from disappearing, scientists are raising concerns about how severe weather and a loss of forest habitat at their wintering grounds in Mexico are affecting them. Every year, monarchs embark on an epic multigenerational migration that takes …
The weather agency on Monday warned of heavy rain, strong wind and rough seas as Typhoon Lionrock swirled off Japan’s eastern coast. The storm was forecast to strike eastern or northern Japan, possibly the Tokyo region, early on Tuesday. As of Monday noon, the typhoon was moving over the Pacific …
Typhoon Mindulle lashed the greater Tokyo area on Monday, dumping heavy rain and leaving at least one person dead and 29 injured in storm-related incidents. Storm water coursed down usually placid rivers and left many streets flooded in the Kanto region. As of Monday evening the typhoon was heading north, …
Heavy rain drenched the Japanese capital on Monday as Typhoon Mindulle swept in, bringing floods that suspended train services and high winds that forced airlines to cancel hundreds of flights. The category one typhoon, the weakest on a scale for storms, dumped more than 10 cm (4 inches) of rain …
A tropical wave located about 600 miles west-southwest of the Cape Verde Islands has an 80 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Tuesday. Environmental conditions appear to be favorable for additional development and a tropical depression …
The forecasting of inundation levels during typhoons requires that multiple objectives be taken into account, including the forecasting capacity with regard to variations in water level throughout the entire weather event, the accuracy that can be attained in forecasting peak water levels, and the time at which peak water levels …
The threats of old are still the dominant drivers of current species loss, indicates an analysis of IUCN Red List data by Sean Maxwell and colleagues. Original Source
The Pacific coast of the Tohoku region of Japan experiences repeated tsunamis, with the most recent events having occurred in 1896, 1933, 1960, and 2011. These events have caused large loss of life and damage throughout the coastal region. There is uncertainty about the degree to which seawalls reduce deaths …
Emergency workers in Mexico are searching for survivors after landslides killed dozens in the wake of Tropical Storm Earl. The worst-affected state was Puebla in central Mexico, where at least 28 people were killed after torrential rains set off mudslides. Puebla Governor Rafael Moreno Valle said dogs had been brought …
Mudslides triggered by intense rainfall in eastern Mexico killed 40 people at the weekend as saturated hillsides collapsed onto modest homes in the wake of now-dissipated Tropical Storm Earl. The death toll rose late on Sunday after state governors in the two most affected states confirmed two more deaths from …
Kishore, a resident of Ashwathnarayana Layout, rearranges the kitchen in his house which is flooded with rainwater for the past three days. DH photo Govt depts accuse one another of neglecting SWDs Lack of coordination among various government departments and poorly-maintained stormwater drains (SWDs) and culverts are said to be …
A weather formation located over the Atlantic, half way between the west coast of Africa and the Lesser Antilles has a 20 percent chance of developing into a tropical cyclone in the next 48 hours, the U.S. National Hurricane Center said on Thursday. Given the speed of the system, development, …
Molefi Ramantele, a small-scale livestock farmer who ekes out a living in Botswana's arid scrubland, lost a third of his cattle in the drought that has scorched southern Africa. "My life is my cattle. I have never seen it so bad...It will take me years to get them back," the …
At least 100 people have been injured and 400 homes destroyed after a tornado hit the Tembisa township in the East Rand, government has said. Speaking to PowerFM on Wednesday, Gauteng Premier, David Makhura, said it would take days before the full extent of the damage could be quantified. "Right …
More than 800 people have died and about 200 are missing in a series of natural disasters that have struck China since June, the worst casualty figures since a similar period in 2011, state media said on Tuesday. Large parts of central, eastern and northern China have been hit by …
HEAVY rain across north and northeast China last week has left 164 people dead and 125 missing, according to the Ministry of Civil Affairs. As of yesterday morning, 10 provincial-level regions had been battered by the bad weather. In the hardest hit provinces of Henan and Hebei, 514,000 people have …
BEIJING – Provincial authorities in northern China said Sunday that they have suspended four local officials for inadequately responding to floods over the past week that killed 114 people and left 111 others missing. The Hebei provincial government said on its official microblog account that it was suspending the head …
