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 …
Judgement of the National Green Tribunal (Western Zone Bench, Pune) in the matter of Aam Aadmi Lokmanch Vs State of Maharashtra & Others dated 19/05/2015 regarding destruction of hills around city of Pune for the purpose of land grabbing and illegal construction of buildings.
The number of people killed in Nepal by two major earthquakes has surpassed 8,500, making the disaster the deadliest to hit the Himalayan country on record. A 7.8-magnitude earthquake hit Nepal on April 25, killing thousands and demolishing more than half a million homes, most of them in rural areas …
A remote sensing and GIS based landslide susceptibility zonation (LSZ) of the Tehri reservoir rim region has been presented here. Landslide causal factors such as land use/land cover, photo-lineaments, landslide incidences, drainage, slope, aspect, relative relief, topographic wetness index and stream power index were derived from remote sensing data. Ancillary …
District collector Saurabh Rao on Tuesday told the authorities concerned to prepare a disaster management plan for 24 villages located in the landslide-prone areas in Pune district. Every village will have a separate set of standard operating procedure depending on its location, approach to human habitats and tool of communication …
Researchers with the Indian Meteorological Department (IMD) now say the effect of global warming has become more pronounced in the country over the last 10 years. Besides an average rise of 0.4-0.5 degrees celsius in temperature, the country has seen a gradual rise in the minimum temperature and also a …
At least 25 households have been rendered homeless and properties worth millions of shillings destroyed in Vihiga county after their houses were swept away in a landslide following a heavy downpour. The Saturday afternoon downpour detroyed homes and property in Gimariani, Muhembe, Kidundu and Mukisangula villages. Elina Malwenya 87 said …
Miraculous pullouts of a teenaged boy and a woman alive on Thursday lifted the gloom on a rainy day while three fresh aftershocks kept people on edge, even as Nepal’s Army Chief feared that the death toll in the quake could be as high as 15,000. A long silence followed …
A scientist of the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, Dr Vikram Gupta, does not rule out the Himalayan region witnessing more landslides in the near future, particularly during the rainy season, as fallout of Nepal’s massive earthquake. The earthquake at Nepal which has been the result of a rupture caused …
At least 52 people have been killed in north-eastern Afghanistan after a huge landslide swept through a village. Nearly 100 homes were destroyed in Khawahan district, Badakhshan province, near Afghanistan's border with Tajikistan. A provincial official told the BBC that most of those killed were women and children. He said …
DODA, Apr 21: The inhabitants of Dhori hamlet of tehsil Bharath Bagla became vulnerable due to massive landslides during the recent incessant rains. The landslides have triggered on both sides of the habitation and the inhabitants have left their houses leaving behind all their belongings due to the fear of …
Hundreds of residents of central Kashmir have been displaced by heavy rain which threatened to unleash floods and landslides, officials here said. The officials said more than 13,000 residents in central Kashmir’s Srinagar and Budgam districts had to evacuate their homes after stormy weather this week caused heavy rain across …
4,300 houses damaged, hundreds of families shifted to safety With the recent torrential rain leading to widespread damage, 17 persons and 900 heads of livestock have been killed and 4,300 houses and more than 700 cowsheds damaged in the Jammu region. The population in all 10 districts except Jammu city …
Chilean emergency rescue workers are increasingly concerned about the fate of 125 people missing after a week of flash floods and mudslides in the Atacama region in the north of the country. At least 25 people are confirmed dead, and another 2,700 are homeless following the devastating floods that affected …
MURREE: Landslides caused recent rains have damaged roads and houses at the hill station. Rain in March is not an unusual phenomenon but this year the amount of rainfall was so heavy that it caused widespread damages. Due to a landslide a road near Aliot and Rawalpind-Murree-Kashmir (RMK) highway remained …
Amid lurking danger of further landslides by heavy rain across the Valley, earth science experts and geologists blame deforestation and illegal encroachment of forest land and streams for soil erosion and slides. The threat of landslides has forced the authorities to shift hundreds of families from vulnerable areas of the …
Met Forecasts More Rainfall In Next 2 Days Rescuers have till now pulled out 15 bodies from the rubble of two houses buried under a landslide triggered by incessant rains at Laden in Jammu & Kashmir's Budgam district on Monday , law minister Syed Basharat Bukhari told the state assembly …
Poonch, March 31 Incessant rain in Poonch has triggered landslides at many places in the district. Five families whose houses had come in the danger zone as a result of massive landslides in Chhamber Kinari village in Mandi tehsil were shifted to Government Middle School, Dattigala, by the district administration …
AT least 10 people are missing, feared dead, in Burundi after landslides, which have destroyed hundreds of home, officials say. Some 3,000 people have been left homeless, according to a BBC reporter who has been to the scene, on the shore of Lake Tanganyika. Their houses were destroyed after mud …
6 bodies recovered, 10 missing as flood threat plays havoc with normal life Sixteen members of two families were buried alive when residential houses collapsed after hit by landslides at Laden, Kralgund area in Chadoora last night. Six bodies were recovered and 10 persons are still lying under debris. The …
Two persons were killed and several families were rescued while over a hundred structures damaged and equal number of live stocks perished in heavy rains and flash floods in Jammu region. The Jammu-Srinagar National highway virtually remain closed with minor relief at stretch near Banihal where some stranded vehicles were …
