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 …
Zhouqu: The death toll from mudslides in northwest China surged to 337 on Monday, as rescuers used diggers and their bare hands in a desperate search for more than 1,000 others still missing. At least three villages were flattened by an avalanche of mud and rocks triggered by heavy rains …
Reuters Mudslides engulfed a town in northwest China on Sunday, killing at least 127 people and leaving nearly 2,000 residents missing as rescue teams dug out crushed homes and sought to blast away debris clogging a river.The mass of flood water, mud and rock hit Zhouqu County in Gannan Tibetan …
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 …
Two labourers lost their lives and three people were injured at Kanlog in Shimla due to heavy rains on Sunday morning. A temporary hutment made of tin sheets collapsed in an under-construction building resulting in the death of two people. In another incident, 20 persons living in Ruldu Bhatta locality …
JAIPUR: Initiatives for stepping up preparedness for natural disasters, establishment of safety nets such as grain bank and fodder bank and exercises for hazard vulnerability analysis at the village level in Rajasthan were highlighted at an international workshop on disaster prevention organised in Japan earlier this month. A two-member team …
Scars still remain on the hills of Nilgiris, or the Blue Mountains. The brown patches are not only testimony to the hundreds of landslides that killed around 50 people last November, but also of what over-exploitation and the real estate boom has done to the fragile ecosystem of the verdant …
Shimla: Environmentalists fear that cutting of slopes for four-laning of the Shimla-Parwanoo section of the National Highway-22 will destabilise the fragile mountain ranges, making the stretch prone to landslides. The main concern is about the environmental fallout of widening which will involve almost vertical cutting of hills, causing huge debris, …
Mumbai: At least ten persons were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in coastal Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra in the wee hours today. The incident occurred at Harne village in Dapoli tehsil at around 2am, police said. Rescue personnel at the site, about 300km from Mumbai, have so …
Rescue Rangoon, June 17: Rescue workers were scrambling to provide aid to tens of thousands left homeless in western Burma and neighbouring Bangladesh on Thursday after floods and landslides killed more than 100 people. At least 57 were killed as bridges and homes were damaged after record rainfall of more …
Massive landslides triggered by overnight torrential rains killed 53 persons, burying some alive in Bangladesh's sea resort town of Cox's Bazar flattening shanties and makeshift structures. Four separate landslides hit Cox's Bazar and Bandarban areas burying a number of people and leaving scores of others missing as heavy rains hamperered …
Mumbai Days ahead of the expected arrival of monsoon, the BMC has identified landslide-prone areas and served eviction notices, but most residents remain where they are for want of options. The BMC has identified 88 landslide-prone areas in the eastern suburbs and parts of the western suburbs, with 23 slum …
The landslide-caused glacial lake in the Hunza Valley has put the Pakistani authorities on an emergency footing, but this catastrophe had been predicted for years.
Its only link to the outside world, the Anini-Roing road, having been hit by landslides at several places, Dibang Valley district in eastern Arunachal Pradesh has remained cut off from the rest of the world for more than six weeks now. The district shares 200 km of international border with …
The Three Gorges dam was so vast and sweeping a vision that nothing could stand in its way. Not the old cities of the Yangtze valley, storehouses of human toil and treasure for more than a thousand years. Not the lush, low-lying farmlands, nor the villages, nor even the pagodas …
Sharad Vyas | TNN Mumbai: As part of its preparedness plans for monsoon 2010, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) served the first batch of warning notices on Friday to landslide-prone areas of the eastern suburbs. Nearly 100 notices were given out to those living in hilly areas of Kurla, Saki …
The area around Kunwari Pass in Central Himalayas is the source of a number of streams that include Dhaknala, Karmanasa, Patalganga, Belakuchi and Garurganga. The first is the tributary of Dhauliganga whereas the rest drain into Alaknanda. These streams are known for the devastation they have caused in the past, …
