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 …
Over 700 families in Tehri have been left temporarily homeless after heavy rainfall and thunderstorms wreaked havoc in the hill district of Garhwal. The death toll from rain and storm in Uttarkashi and Tehri rose to four on Monday while two persons are missing. Hundreds of houses were caught in …
The purpose of this document is to formulate guidelines for the preparation of plans to make India disaster resilient and reduce loss of lives. The plan is based on the four priority themes of the "Sendai Framework," namely: understanding disaster risk, improving disaster risk governance, investing in disaster risk reduction …
Coal mines in the western areas of China experience low mining rates and induce many geo-hazards when using the room and pillar mining method. In this research, we proposed a roadway backfill method during longwall mining to target these problems. We tested the mechanical properties of the backfill materials to …
Six people in a village in East China's Zhejiang Province went missing after their houses were buried by landslide early on Sunday. The landslide occurred shortly after midnight in Jiande City, following heavy downpour in the area, local government said, adding that rescuers are searching for the missing people. More …
In response to a series of floods and landslides which swept across Sri Lanka between 14th and 22nd May, the European Commission is providing Euro 200,000 (Rs. 32.8 million) in humanitarian funding to assist the most affected populations, the European Union said in a statement Thursday. This aid will directly …
El Nino, the warming of the surface waters of the Pacific Ocean, is a completely natural phenomenon which is known to affect the weather in many parts of the world. The current conditions gradually emerged at the end of 2014 and the beginning of 2015. At its peak in December …
Two boys were killed and at least 15 more houses washed away in flash floods in Manipur, and people complained that the administration has been failing to help them deal with the calamity. A seven-year-old boy in Imphal East district was electrocuted on Monday when he walked on a live …
Sri Lanka Army troops engaged recovery operations at the landslide site in Aranayake in Kegalle district recovered seven more bodies bringing the death toll from the flash floods and landslides to 92, the Disaster Management Center (DMC) said. The Army recue teams by Monday (23) have managed to recover 24 …
A collapse at an illegal mine killed at least 13 people in Myanmar's northern Kachin State, a resident involved in rescue efforts said on Tuesday, the latest in a series of deadly accidents to hit the jade-mining area. The wall of the pit in Weikha Village in Hpakant, the center …
Ten daily wagers were killed and five others injured — one of them gravely — in a landslide that hit Dehradum district’s Chakrata in the wee hours of Monday. The daily wagers were asleep when strong winds and thundershowers sent boulders rolling down from a hill nearby in Teoni-Hanol at …
Following heavy landslides due to incessant rain, several roads and houses of villages like Muolhoi, Khonsai, Disgao Raji, Upper Bagetar, Gilgal and Lower Haflong were damaged, leaving the people to pass sleepless nights. The residence of Lamhao Gamlhou, village secretary of Khongsai village, Haflong was completely damaged by landslide on …
109 people are still listed as missing, according to the Disaster Management Centre The death toll from floods and landslides caused by heavy rains in Sri Lanka has risen to 92, officials said. Soldiers looking for victims recovered at least seven more bodies on Sunday from Aranayake - one of …
Guwahati/Silchar/Karimganj: At least 11 persons, including five of a family, were killed and seven others injured on Wednesday in separate landslides in Assam’s Barak Valley districts of Karimganj and Hailakandi along Mizoram. In Hailakandi district, two massive landslides claimed five lives in Bilaipur and injured a six-year-old boy in Ramchandi …
Hopes faded on Thursday for the survival of about 150 people trapped under the mud and rubble of two landslides in Sri Lanka, as heavy rain hampered rescue operations and the death toll from the disaster rose to 41. Days of torrential rains have forced more than 300,000 people from …
Heavy rain in Dima Hasao has affected normal life in the hill district of Assam causing landslides at several places, including its headquarters in Haflong, official sources said. Due to incessant rain and landslips since Monday, Haflong was completely cut off as land and train services were cancelled between several …
At least 11 people have died and over 225,000 people have been affected in Sri Lanka by floods and landslides as heavy rains lashed the country for the past three days, the Disaster Management Centre (DMC) said on Tuesday. According to the latest situation report of the DMC, 226,115 people …
Forest fires that engulfed major parts of Uttarakhand hills can now be instrumental in polluting water bodies. These can also lead to increase in quantity of soil getting washed away during the coming rainy season. Kirti Kumar, Senior Scientist at the Govind Ballabh Institute of Himalayan Environment and Development, Almora, …
Debris-flows not only cause a great loss of property, but also kill and injure people every rainy season in the mountainous regions of China. In order to reduce hazard and risk, several methods of assessing rainfall thresholds have been provided at present, based on statistical models. However, the limited rainfall …
JAKARTA, April 27 (Xinhua) -- Flash floods, floods and landslides have struck Jambi province in western Indonesia, leaving one missing and scores of houses and roads damaged, senior official of provincial disaster agency said on Wednesday. Heavy downpours were blamed for the natural disasters which have taking place in some …
