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 …
Some were more than a century old but still sturdy and doing their jobs. Many others were young and willowy, just getting going. Some of them were inscrutable; no one truly knew them or how they got there. But others felt like old friends. They were wonderful for their blissful …
Rescue workers sought to clear flood-borne debris including damaged cars and evacuate victims after heavy rains and stormy winds across central Europe killed at least 15 people over the weekend.Heavy downpours on Saturday caused rivers to overflow their banks and a dam to burst, submerging Bogatynia and other towns in …
BEIJING, 27 JULY: Over 630 people have been feared killed or missing during the last two weeks in floods and landslides triggered by heavy rains in China, taking the death toll since early this year to over 1,000. Meanwhile Chinese rescuers continued to search for 13 people who went missing …
A person was injured, while six houses and two four-wheelers were damaged, after gusty winds hit Tariwado-Adpai in Durbhat-Agapur panchayat area, Ponda, on Wednesday at about 11.30 am. Villagers have claimed that they have never witnessed such kind of activity in the locality. Gusty winds that lasted for a few …
Louisiana: The first named storm of the Atlantic hurricane season is posing an uncertain threat to the Gulf of Mexico, even as efforts to contain the worst oil spill in US history are set to ramp up. For now, Tropical Storm Alex, which is hitting the western Caribbean with rain …
Tropical Storm Alex headed toward the Gulf of Mexico on Sunday, but while it was not expected to hit the oil spill area, experts warned strong waves and winds could hamper clean-up efforts there. With oil continually gushing into the fragile waters for the past 68 days, President Barack Obama
Wellington: New research has cast doubt on warnings that rising sea levels caused by climate change are slowly inundating low-lying Pacific islands. Scientists have studied 27 low-lying Pacific islands, comparing aerial photos from 60 years ago with modern satellite images, according to an article published in the New Scientist. Paul …
LUCKNOW: Even as the heatwave continued in the city, many parts of the state were lashed by duststorm on Thursday evening. While the city witnessed dusty clouds and was lashed by strong winds, the storm in other parts of the state though brought relief but also left behind a trail …
Nano on road, Phet at sea Phet Threat Could Get Real By Friday Ahmedabad: Alarm bells rang through Gujarat as Cyclone Phet intensified to very severe cyclonic storm kicking up strong winds, thunderstorm and rainfall across the state, in a dramatic switch from the sweltering heat. Phet could possibly hit …
P. Sunderarajan With the cyclonic storm over the Arabian Sea becoming increasingly strong, the India Meteorological Department (IMD) on Wednesday issued a fresh alert for the coastal areas of Gujarat. In a bulletin on Wednesday evening, the department warned that from Friday onwards, sea conditions over north Arabian Sea and …
NEW DELHI: The deep depression over the Arabian Sea has intensified into a cyclonic storm. But it remains stationary 1,100 km west-south-west off Mumbai, 1,030 km off Naliya in the Kutch region of Gujarat and 1,100 km south-south-west off Karachi. According to the India Meteorological Department, the current environmental and …
Heavy rain caused by tropical storm Agatha has killed almost 100 people in Central America, where tens of thousands of people had to be evacuated over the weekend because of flooding. In Guatemala, which has been worst affected by the rains, 82 people had died, President Alvaro Colom was quoted …
LUCKNOW: Fifteen people have been killed and several others injured in duststorms in different districts of Uttar Pradesh, official sources said here on Thursday. Eleven people were on Thursday killed and 15 injured in eight villages in Soraon tehsil in Allahabad district in duststorm related incidents, they said. Four persons …
New Delhi: Fifteen people were killed on Thursday as dust storms lashed different districts of Uttar Pradesh while North India continued to reel under the heat wave with the mercury crossing 45 degrees at several places. A dust storm swept across the trans-Ganga region in the morning killing nine people, …
BHUBANESWAR: Orissa Monday hoisted storm warning signal in four of its ports as a depression formed over south-east Bay of Bengal was likely to intensify into a cyclonic storm, an official said. A depression formed over south-east Bay of Bengal and neighbourhood lay centred at about 1,050 km south-south-east of …
Residents of the Assam State Zoo cum Botanical Garden had a miraculous escape after a power cable snapped last night over the campus during the storm that lashed large tracts Guwahati and adjoining areas. Zoo DFO, Narayan Mahanta said,
a tornado accompanied by thunder squall hit parts of northern Bengal and Bihar on the night of April 13 reviving memories of cyclone Aila last year. The meteorological department gave no warning; 129 persons died when the winds blowing at 120-130 km per hour caught them unawares. The storm was …
Patna: Sixteen persons, including three children, were killed and more than 25 injured when a high velocity storm struck eastern Bihar on Friday morning. This is the second instance of a thunderstorm hitting the State after a Nor'wester hit West Bengal, Bihar and Assam last month, claiming more than 130 …
: At least 38 people were killed after a tornado, hail storms, galeforce winds and torrential rains hit southern China, damaging thousands of homes and destroying crops. The storms hit the giant south-western municipality of Chongqing as well as neighbouring Guizhou and Hunan provinces overnight, leaving more than 190 people …
