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 …
A massive and growing landslide shoved a quarter-mile of State Route 410 into the Naches River, forcing the river to find a new course and causing some flooding in the sparsely populated valley on the eastern slopes of the Cascade Range. No injuries were reported from the slide early Sunday …
With no outside help in sight, villagers used their bare hands on Sunday to dig out rotting corpses, four days after landslides triggered by a huge earthquake wiped out four hamlets in western Indonesia. Officials said at least 644 people were buried and presumed dead in the villages in Padang …
A U.N. climate deal to in Copenhagen in December will also be vital to guide trade and development policies, Denmark's Prime Minister said on Thursday. Lars Lokke Rasmussen told Reuters he hoped that a summit of world leaders at U.N. headquarters on September 22 would be a "tipping point" to …
Records with the gup of Lumang gewog in Trashigang show that 128 households from four of its villages have abandoned their homes for resettlement elsewhere in the country.
Quakes, volcanic eruptions, giant landslides and tsunamis may become more frequent as global warming changes the earth's crust, scientists said on Wednesday. Climate-linked geological changes may also trigger "methane burps," the release of a potent greenhouse gas, currently stored in solid form under melting permafrost and the seabed, in quantities …
With the rains gone, farmers in Dagana are estimating the damage caused by heavy and continuous rain last month, which include cultivated paddy fields, maize crops, irrigation channels and citrus mandarin (orange) trees. Six of the dzongkhag
More landslides can be expected as climate change exacerbates rainfall intensity - but their impact can be reduced, stresses the UN organization charged with coordinating global disaster risk reduction. "As this week's tragic events in East Asia show once again, people living on unstable slopes and steep terrains are particularly …
MUMBAI: Ten people were killed when a portion of a rocky hill slid down on hutments in Lal Bahadur Shastri Nagar at Saki Naka after heavy showers on Thursday night. Another 22 who were injured are out of danger. However, an 11-year-old girl was still missing at the time of …
Rescue workers on Friday pulled several bodies from the rubble of a giant landslide, lifting the death toll from a powerful earthquake to 64. Dozens more people were still missing and feared dead. The number of houses recorded as destroyed or damaged in Wednesday
The death toll from a powerful earthquake in Indonesia, which killed at least 42 people and forced thousands to flee buildings, is likely to rise, government agencies said early on Thursday morning. The 7.0 magnitude quake shook buildings in the capital Jakarta on Wednesday afternoon and flattened homes in villages …
The heaviest rainfall in 90 years in the African state of Burkina Faso has triggered heavy flooding and forced thousands of people to flee their homes, the government said Wednesday. "We have been able to find shelter for about 110,000 people but there are others who have taken refuge with …
WITH the clock ticking and less than a hundred days to go until ministers from around the world meet at the UN climate change conference in Copenhagen, Denmark, now is the time for the UK and [South Asia/India/Bangladesh] to work together to get a climate deal that is fair to …
The Gorkha Janmukti Morcha today cancelled its much-hyped public meeting scheduled here in the afternoon because of the fresh bout of landslides that struck the hills. The party top brass, however, continues to be tight-lipped on the expulsion of Jaswant Singh, who was elected MP from Darjeeling with Morcha support, …
About 82 families in Bajura district have become homeless due to floods and subsequent landslide. In Kuldevmandau VDC, 6o families have been displaced and other 22 in Kailashmandau-6 VDC. The VDC office informed that some seven families of Bane village have been taking shelter in a local school while other …
At least forty-six people were killed in a landslide triggered by heavy rains in the northern Indian state of Uttarakhand, police said on Sunday. Three villages in the hilly Pithoragarh district were swept away in the landslide after a cloudburst on Saturday, local police official M.S. Sathnam said. Seventeen bodies …
A medium-strength typhoon, the most severe this year so far, slowly enveloped Taiwan on Friday, forcing flight cancellations and port closures after killing 11 people in the Philippines. Typhoon Morakot churned slowly toward Taiwan with winds gusts up to 180 kph (112 mph) on its way to China and after …
Nainital: Rescue workers on Sunday searched through mud and rocks for other fatalities even as they pulled out 23 bodies from the debris of a landslide that swamped three villages in Uttarakhand
Dehra Dun: Six more bodies were recovered from the debris on Sunday, taking the death toll in the cloudburst that triggered a massive landslip in three villages of Pithoragarh district to 21.
