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 …
Mudslides in southwest China on the weekend killed at least 20 people, with another 42 missing in the hilly countryside, official media reported. The torrents of mud and rock hit near Chuxiong city in Yunnan province, and in countryside near the province capital Kunming, toppling or damaging nearly 1,000 houses, …
At least 24 people have been killed and thousands evacuated in Honduras after days of torrential rain, landslides and flooding, rescue workers said on Wednesday. Some 25,000 people are homeless as relentless continue to pound low-lying northern Honduras and downpours swell rivers in some of the poorest parts in the …
Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall since Friday continue to claim lives in various mid and farwestern districts of the country. Thousands have been displaced while hundreds are still awaiting rescue in their waterlogged villages. In Kanchanpur district alone, the death toll has reached 15, with seven more reported …
HIT BY CALAMITY: Debris of a house that collapsed due to heavy rain in Shimla on Saturday. Rescue work to unearth bodies is on. SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Chief Minister Prem Kumar Dhumal, while reviewing the situation that has risen after massive rains and landslides here on Sunday, confirmed that there …
Shillong, September 20 Heavy landslides and uprooting of trees after incessant rain in the last 48 hours have resulted in the death of 42 people in Himachal Pradesh. Shimla district alone reported a toll of 38 deaths from the town and sub-divisions like Rohru,Theog and Chopal. One person was killed …
At least 12 people died in landslide in different districts in past few days. Seven people were killed in landslide in Doti and Dhangadi districts following an incessant rainfall for last three days. Five persons from a family died in Laxminagar VDC in Doti district and three others injured, when …
Floods and landslides triggered by torrential monsoon rainfall in the last two days have killed over two dozen people in far-western districts. In Kailali district, at least 15 people have been killed and twenty-five Village Development Committees (VDCs) inundated due to flood in Mohana River. Nearly a dozen flood and …
Beijing, The death toll has risen to 254 in a landslide triggered by the collapse of an illegal mining dump, which engulfed a village in northern China, a government official said on Sunday. By late Saturday, rescuers had identified 128 of the dead bodies recovered after Monday
Unfulfilled promises; villagers hanging loose On July 24 this year, a school block near the Loharinag Pala hydroelectric project in Sunagarh, Uttarkashi district, gave away as the rocks under it had become unstable. The subsequent landslide kept the highway blocked for the next three days.
BY GILLIAN WONG BEIJING Rescuers shovelled and hammered at debris on Wednesday searching for survivors buried under sludge, mud and mining waste in northern China after a landslide that killed at least 128 people, but hopes of finding anybody alive were fading. The landslide that plowed into buildings on Monday …
BEIJING: Rescuers shoveled and hammered at debris on Wednesday, searching for survivors buried under sludge, mud and mining waste in northern China after a landslide that killed at least 56 people, but hopes of finding anybody alive faded. The landslide that plowed into buildings Monday in a valley in Shanxi …
A mudslide killed at least 9 people in the southern Philippines and rescue workers were scrambling to find another 14 still missing after monsoon rains loosened soil and buried about 45 makeshift houses near a mining town. Officials said on Sunday dozens of soldiers, police officers, miners and volunteers continued …
Farmers of Shingkhar gewog in Zhemgang are in a state of shock after landslides in the past week washed away about seven acres of cultivated paddy fields in their gewog. The first incident occurred in Thajong on August 26. A farmer lost about an acre of cultivated paddy fields. Three …
Thanks to the availability of satellite data archives covering more than a decade, Permanent Scatterer SAR Interferometry (PSInSAR) nowadays represents one of the most powerful techniques capable of retrieving surface displacements of either natural (rock outcrops) or man made objects (buildings, infrastructures) already present within the surveyed area, acting as …
At least five persons were killed in separate incidents of landslides in Tanahun district, Saturday. Reports quoted police as saying that three persons died after landslide in Chokchissapani VDC-9 swept away the house belonging to Nanda Prasad Joshi. The deceased have been identified as Joshi's wife Sabitri, his 13-year-old son …
Loss from Sidr: The economic loss caused by super cyclone Sidr that hit Bangladesh on November 15, 2007, is more than us $ 4.4 billion, reveals a survey conducted by the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants of Bangladesh. The cyclone completely destroyed about 4,10,000 hectares of farmland and damaged …
At least 120 residents at Mugapatan of Kalikot district has been displaced by the landslip on Wednesday morning. Some 20 people were displaced after the landslip swept away their residents and rest others were displaced due to the danger of the landslip. Those displaced have been settled in the families …
The government-formed Hill Management Committee has decided to immediately implement protective measures to prevent landslides and make the dwellings in foothill areas risk-free instead of going for large-scale evacuation. On the basis of suggestions from the Technical Protection Committee, it decided at a meeting on Monday evening that hill regions …
AS IN the case of every human tragedy in Bangladesh, the death of 11 people, including six of a family, in a torrential rain-triggered landslide at Lalkhan Bazar in Chittagong city entailed quite an intense debate. Relentless hill-cutting was once again identified as the primary reason for the landslide and …
The authorities in Chittagong decided to launch a drive demarcate vulnerable spots with red lines and move the people from such spots by dismantling their houses on the hill slopes. The drive is aimed at averting further landslides, officials said. Fears for fresh landslides after Monday's incident in which 11 …
