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 …
At least three people were killed and 35 injured as heavy rains lashed Indonesia, bringing down trees and powerlines and damaging hundreds of homes, an official said Thursday. ‘Storms on Wednesday killed three people — one person in Jakarta and one each in Malang and Blitar districts in East Java,’ …
The Chennai Corporation will construct a stormwater drain network, totalling nearly 800 km, in the areas that have been merged with it as part of the measures to prevent water-logging. The new areas come under the Corporation zones of Tiruvottiyur, Manali, Madhavaram, Ambattur, Valasaravakkam, Alandur, Perungudi and Sholinganallur. Areas where …
One potential impact from greenhouse-gas emissions is increasing damage from extreme events. Here, we quantify how climate change may affect tropical cyclone damage. We find that future increases in income are likely to double tropical cyclone damage even without climate change. Climate change is predicted to increase the frequency of …
SAMBALPUR: The trouble seems far from over. Drought, untimely rain, flood and now hailstorm, the vegetable growers of western Odisha cannot but blame their fate. For the last three days, the region has been experiencing rain with reports of hailstorm being received from Deogarh, Jharsuguda, Bargarh besides Sambalpur. While the …
British wind power production reached a record high just before the New Year as storms hit the British Isles and powered onshore and offshore wind turbines, beating the previous high by nearly 20 percent, generation data showed on Friday. Wind farms produced a record 12.2 percent of UK energy demand …
At least two persons were killed after storms, with gusts of up to 100 miles per hour swept across much of Britain, disrupting road and rail traffic besides leaving thousands without electricity in England and Scotland. A man in his 50s died when a tree fell on his van in …
An avalanche coupled with heavy storm from Langtang Lirung Mountain has damaged around 50 houses in Langtang region in Rasuwa district, RSS reports. The heavy avalanche and storm damaged the houses of Langtang VDC-4, 5, 6 and 7, informed a local Pasang Dindruk Tamang. Two horses and two yaks were …
The death toll from flash floods that swept away entire villages in the southern Philippines climbed to nearly 1,500, as authorities widened their search for bodies. The Office of Civil Defense's latest tally listed 891 dead in Cagayan de Oro and an additional 451 in nearby Iligan city. The rest …
Two tropical lows off northern Australia could develop into cyclones in coming days as the La Niña weather pattern persists, but pose no immediate threat to mining and crop regions devastated by cyclones and flooding in early 2011. The storms were forming as the Australian Bureau of Meteorology forecast that …
Philippine authorities on Tuesday began burying the dead from flash floods that have left more than 1,000 dead or missing, as President Benigno Aquino declared a national disaster. Mr. Aquino flew to Mindanao island to inspect the ports of Cagayan de Oro and Iligan — choked with drying mud, crumpled …
Philippine rescuers struggled against mud, fatigue and the stench of death on Sunday to help the survivors of devastating flash floods that killed more than 650 people. As bodies washed out to sea began rising to the surface, mortuaries were overwhelmed and emergency teams struggled to find survivors in cloying …
Rescuers searched for more than 800 people missing in the southern Philippines on Sunday after flash floods and landslides swept houses into rivers and out to sea, killing more than 650 people in areas ill-prepared to cope with storms. Cagayan de Oro and nearby Iligan cities on Mindanao island were …
Officials say the death toll from storm-triggered flash floods in the southern Philippines has risen to more than 120, with more than 100 people missing. Mayor Lawrence Cruz of Iligan city says 79 bodies were recovered Saturday after more than 12 hours of continuous rain from Tropical Storm Washi swelled …
More than six years after it was proposed, the civic administration has now asked the Central Government to fund the Rs 1,675 crore Mithi River Project, with a view to ease the financial burden. So far the the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and the MMRDA have spent Rs 827 crore …
High winds returned to the Los Angeles area early on Saturday as over 100,000 homes and businesses lost power, due to fallen trees and other damage from an ongoing windstorm. Southern California Edison said that at mid-afternoon it still had 73,600 customers affected by the outages, which were mainly concentrated …
Southern Californians began recovering Thursday from unusually forceful Santa Ana winds that left thousands of homes without electricity and forced several communities to declare states of emergency. A worker trims a tree at a damaged gas station in Pasadena, Calif. The cities of Pasadena and Sierra Madre, both in the …
The death toll from Thailand`s worst flooding in more than half a century has passed 600. The floods began in late July, fed by heavy monsoon rains and a series of tropical storms. The floodwaters swamped entire towns as they moved south through the country`s central heartland to Bangkok and …
Severe storms and suspected tornadoes across the South have resulted in structural damage, power outages, injuries and at least six deaths in three states, officials said on Thursday. Officials confirmed deaths in North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia from the extreme weather that swept the region on Wednesday. A 50-year-old …
Residents of remote Alaska towns and tiny Native villages were working on Friday to tally up damages from a near-record storm that lashed the state's west coast, officials said. "Thirty-seven villages have reported some type of damage, whether that is wind damage or minor flooding or power outages. It's really …
About 1 million people remained without power in the Northeast on Wednesday after an uncommonly robust and deadly fall snowstorm last weekend pounded a half-dozen states and sparked widespread outages. As the snow was steadily melting across the region, utility crews struggled to restore electricity to many towns because of …
