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South-west China’s Sichuan province and Chongqing municipality have been hit by severe flooding triggered by heavy rainfall over the past month. According to state broadcasters, authorities dispatched rescue personnel to evacuate residents from the aff…
Read MoreAccording to state media, heavy flooding has displaced thousands of people and damaged infrastructure across China. Authorities in the northern Shaanxi province reported the worst flooding in 50 years, while in the south-western city of Chongqing, a la…
Read MoreThe category-5 storm brought 160mph winds and torrential rain to parts of Bangladesh and Myanmar on Sunday, leaving at least five dead and causing half a million people to be evacuated Continue reading…
Read More‘Plinth’ settlements built on raised ground above the country’s flooding rivers are providing permanent homes and emergency refugesHamida Khatun is sick of moving. The 60-year has been displaced about 20 times during her life, always as a result of cli…
Read MoreThis blog is now closedFull report: cyclone devastates North IslandMinister delivers furious speech about ‘lost decades spent bickering’ over climate crisisCyclone Gabrielle batters New Zealand – in picturesTell us: have you been affected by Cyclone Ga…
Read MoreDamaging storm causes wind gusts up to 160km/h. This blog is now closedCyclone Gabrielle wreaks havoc across New Zealand’s North Island as evacuations continueRain and wind expected to intensifyThe approach of Cyclone Gabrielle is bringing particularly…
Read MoreWhen the rains came last autumn, I was among the millions made homeless in Sindh province. Here is why – months later – I am still helping to patch up ruined livesRead more: Pakistan families still hungry and homeless months after the floodsThe floods …
Read MoreForced to endure a ‘humiliating’ life in tent cities, waiting for stagnant waters to recede, villagers say they have been abandonedSeveral times a week, Manzoor Ali wakes with a faint hope in his heart and walks from the camp on the outskirts of Dadu, …
Read MoreInternational funders join Pakistan PM and UN secretary general in Geneva to agree recovery plan following ‘monsoon on steroids’The international community has promised more than $9bn (£7.4bn) to help Pakistan rebuild after last summer’s catastrophic f…
Read MoreClimate disasters continue to ravage our country – more international aid is urgently needed to save millions from miseryMuhammad Shehbaz Sharif is the prime minister of PakistanThe apocalyptic rains and floods that hit Pakistan last summer claimed 1,7…
Read MoreWith the deadly devastation fresh in the world’s mind, Pakistan pushed for damage funds with other frontline countriesIn early September, after unprecedented rainfall had left a third of Pakistan under water, its climate change minister set out the cou…
Read MoreDevastating floods across Pakistan in August and September after several years of high temperatures have left chilli farmers struggling in a country heavily dependent on agriculture, where the flooding is estimated to have caused $40bn worth of damage …
Read MoreHeavy rains ahead of Storm Nalgae caused flooding and multiple landslides in the southern Philippines, killing dozens of people, a senior government official said on Friday. Authorities have evacuated thousands of people from the path of the …
Read MorePhotographer Gideon Mendel visited Sindh province in Pakistan after the worst floods in living memory this summer killed more than 1,500 people and left millions homeless.The portraits, part of his Drowning World project, are a powerful reminder of the…
Read MoreFloods destroyed at least 4m acres of farmland, and with large areas still under water, new crops cannot be sownMuhammad Naeem Khoso lost thousands acres of crops when the torrential downpours that devastated Pakistan in July and August turned his land…
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