カテゴリー: Flooding
Refugee organisation says 30m new displacements last year were due to floods, storms or wildfiresIntense storms and flooding triggered three times more displacements than violent conflicts did last year, as the number of people internally displaced wor…
The frequency of natural disasters is making life in rural areas increasingly difficult, pushing inhabitants into city slumsThe house Faruk Hossain grew up in has, for the last six months, resisted being claimed by the river, as the rest of the village…
A proposed island megacity off Karachi puts precious wetlands – and the millions of jobs that depend on them – at riskOn the island of Bundal, off Pakistan’s Arabian Sea coast, people gather in their thousands, as they have done for decades, to honour …
More than 100 so far reported dead or missing after two storms destroy homes and leave trail of destruction Floods and landslides in Vietnam are reported to have left at least 102 people dead or missing, while tens of thousands of people have lost thei…
Floods, droughts, avalanches and landslides are common in the mountainous, arid terrainKhoja Zada found his son around noon; his body was under layers of rubble and mud. The rain had stopped and the sun was shining again when the 70-year-old dug him ou…
Authorities use boats to rescue Karachi residents trapped by monsoon rains Heavy rains have hit parts of Pakistan, including the financial capital of Karachi, for a fifth straight night, bringing further flooding to towns and villages and leaving at le…
Extreme floods have hit the Three Gorges dam on the Yangtze River, which recorded the largest inflow of water in its history, prompting officials to promise it could withstand the flows.Several outlets of the dam have been opened to discharge water, th…
Officials seek to reassure public after world’s largest hydro-electric dam nears capacity amid heavy floodsExtreme floods have hit China’s Three Gorges dam, which recorded the largest inflow of water in its history, prompting officials to assure the pu…
Flooding in Sichuan province rises over feet of Leshan Giant Buddha for first time since 1949Floods on the upper reaches of the Yangtze river in south-west China have forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people and threatened a 1,200-year-o…
India’s commercial capital grinds to a halt after heaviest August rainfall in 47 years causes widespread floodingThe heaviest monsoon downpour in nearly 50 years has brought Mumbai to a standstill, with stranded passengers at railway stations having to…
Despite flood planning efforts hundreds have been killed and millions hit as third of land is submerged by non-stop rainBangladesh could be plunged into a humanitarian crisis as it undergoes the most prolonged monsoon flooding in decades while it is st…
Hurried evacuation of millions of residents will increase coronavirus cases, officials say Coronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverage Severe flooding in India’s tea-growing state of Assam and neighbouring Nepal has killed at least 200…
Thirty-three rivers break water level records as relief funds criticised as inadequateTorrential rains have continued to batter China, destroying homes and rendering millions of people homeless as residents fear they may be facing a repeat of floods th…
City at centre of coronavirus outbreak faces new crisis as China suffers weeks of floodingPeople living in Wuhan, the central Chinese city that bore the brunt of the country’s coronavirus outbreak, have been told stay indoors once more after record rai…