Tag: Flood
Human Activity, The Common Thread of All Natural Disasters
Disasters such as floods, cyclones, and droughts are more connected and human activity is the common thread in all the disasters, said a new...
Third Pole May Witness More Flash Floods
Flash floods may triple in the “Third Pole” with the ongoing climate change posing a danger, according to researchers from the Xinjiang Institute of...
Uttarakhand Flood, a Himalayan Blunder of Events
It is the second in recent times that the Himalayan region saw floods in large scale. The first one was the 2013 cloudburst in...
World under severe Flood threat; World Bank
About 1.47 billion people are directly exposed to the risk of intense flooding with over a third of them (Almost 600 million), are poor,...
World to face worst coastal flooding
With the world facing one of the worst climate changes, the coastal regions will see a 50 per cent flooding in 80 years, which...
Four million children affected in Floods in Indian sub continent
Torrential monsoon rains, widespread flooding and deadly landslides in Bangladesh, Bhutan, India and Nepal have affected more than four million children and are in...
Mumbai gets the state of art early flood warning system
Mumbaikars can heave sigh of relief from the annual monsoon flooding with iFLOWS- Mumbai, a state-of the-art Integrated Flood Warning System that was launched...
Centre team to visit flood affected states
In the wake of devastating floods that ripped many states, including Kerala, the Centre has decided to send a Ministerial central team to the...
Amendment to mine assigned lands to invite disasters
When damages to Western Ghats said to be the main cause of the frequent landslips, the Kerala government is alleged to be moving ahead...
Toll touches 102; Kerala still in the grip of monsoon fury
Kerala continues to reel under monsoon fury even as the toll in landslips and flood touched 102l. Search operations are continuing in Kavalapara in...
