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 …
Kalimpong, May 6: A Kalimpong-based NGO has started a project on an experimental basis to promote the planting of a grass that can control soil erosion in landslide-prone areas. The NGO, Save The Hills, has distributed 15 gunny sacks of vetiver or khas-khas grass at cost price to different groups …
Singappulikanda, a hill at Pathakada in Pelmadulla has been declared a high-risk area prone to land slips and the occupants in 21 houses on its slopes evacuated by the Ratnapura District Disaster Management Centre. This step was taken by officials of the centre who inspected the hill after an earthslip …
The government of Gilgit-Baltistan on Tuesday released Rs315 million to be disbursed among the internally displaced people of Hunza who were affected by the formation of an artificial lake on Hunza river after a devastating landslide. This was stated by Speaker Gilgit-Baltistan Legislative Assembly Wazir Baig while talking to this …
Gangtok, May 2: The trade between Sikkim and Tibet through Nathu-la did not kick off today as customs officers from India failed to reach the spot because of mudslides along Jawaharlal Nehru Marg. The slides blocked the road connecting Gangtok with Nathu-la at 9th Mile and 13th Mile yesterday afternoon, …
Five members of a family, including two minors, were buried alive and one person was injured due to a landslide caused by heavy rain in Doda district last night. Besides damaging the house, the landslide killed two mules. The deceased have been identified as Luftullah (60), his wife Sharifa Begun …
Independent India’s first hill city has jeopardised the ecology of the Sahyadri Hills. Its developer and political patrons bent rules and circumvented environmental law while building it. Resultant landslides could endanger the city. Read this special report published in DownTo Earth. Independent India’s first hill city has jeopardised the ecology …
Lavasa is a destination for the well-heeled, upwardly mobile, aspiring for quality life. The streets bear names like Thicket and Celosia (an ornamental plant); the village that the town replaces—Dasve—has become the Dasve boulevard. The town centre boasts a town hall that does not resemble any municipal office but a …
Sitting near her dilapidated hut in Mugaon village, 70 kilometres from Pune, Thumabai Walhekar (50) was furious. I had asked her a simple question—did she want township Lavasa? Mugaon is one of the 18 villages where Independent India’s first hill city is being developed. Thumabai spoke breathlessly in Marathi, her …
Severe flooding and mudslides in southern Thailand have killed 21 people, stranded thousands of tourists and threatened to delay shipments of rubber in the world
JAMMU, Mar 9: Finance Minister, Abdul Rahim Rather today informed the Legislative Assembly that the incessant spells of rainfall on February 13 and 14 resulted into landslides in Banihal constituency due to which, 16 houses were fully damaged and another 40 partially. Replying to the Calling Attention Notice of Congress …
JAMMU, Mar 4: Due to massive landslides triggered by continuous rainfall, Jammu-Srinagar National Highway remained closed for normal vehicular traffic for the third consecutive day today while as road link of Doda and Kishtwar districts got snapped late last night. The landslides also damaged three houses in Kishtwar district killing …
The team of researchers who studied the flood possibility for Goa has recommended various measures including mapping of areas vulnerable for landslides in the state. The committee headed by National Institute of Oceanography (NIO) Director Dr Satish Shetye submitted its report on February 18 to the state government keeping in …
Two labourers were killed and another seriously injured in a landslide in Kamrup (Rural) district today, police said. The three labourers were engaged in earth cutting at Garurachal Hills near Poa Mecca Dargah in Hajo town of the district when the landslide took place and the two labourers were crushed …
SEVERAL countries in the Southern Hemisphere experienced their worst floods in decades in the past two months. While intense rainfall for over a month kept parts of Australia inundated for weeks, severe floods and landslides killed hundreds of people in Brazil and Sri Lanka, and affected more than one million. …
A WIND farm project under way in Khed and Mawal talukas of Pune has partially destroyed protected forests and threatens farmland in the area. On December 16, 2010, the Bombay High Court, responding to a public interest petition by a people’s forum, ordered a halt on tree felling. But blasting …
Sri Lanka cabinet of ministers today has decided to allocate 33 billion rupees (approximately 300 million US dollars) for rehabilitation and restoration programs in the districts affected by the recent floods and landslides. The government issuing a statement said today that a Task Force appointed under the chairmanship of Sri …
Sri Lanka President Mahinda Rajapaksa following a decision arrived at the Sri Lanka Freedom Party Central Committee meeting today has appointed a task force to rehabilitate the areas affected by the floods. The government has allocated a further 70 million rupees to provide relief to those affected by floods, Minister …
This report proposes a method for mapping landslides. It describes the geological reasons behind the landslides that occurred in the Canacona taluka. As noted by the Canacona Flash Floods Study Committee, these landslides occurred on steep slopes; the cascading water triggered the landslides. The method described in this report makes …
Natural disasters caused $109 billion in economic damage last year, three times more than in 2009, with Chile and China bearing most of the cost, the United Nations said Monday. The 8.8-magnitude earthquake that struck Chile in February cost $30 billion. Landslides and floods last summer in China caused $18 …
