State of the Climate in Asia 2024
<p>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
Landslides
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Landslide kills 128 in China
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 in a valley in Shanxi province
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Hopes dim in China to aid victims of landslide
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.
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Landslide Kills 9 in Philippines, 14 Missing
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.
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Landslides devastate paddy fields
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 days later, on August 29, about four and a half acres of paddy were washed away in Dangapong, below Phungmathang dratshang. Seven households were affected by the landslide.
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PSInSAR analysis monitors Lake Sarez displacement
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 permanent radar reflectors.
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Five killed in Tanahun landslides
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 Shanker and neighbor Suman Luintel. Likewise, landslides in Barbhanjyang VDC-8 claimed the lives of two persons -Deu Kumari BK, 63 and her daughter Chija, 27. Their bodies were found buried deep in mud. Three persons were also injured in the incident.
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South Asia
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 12 lakh tonnes of the Aman paddy crop, which accounts for 40 per cent of the
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Landslip displaces 120 people in Kalikot
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 of the armies. The landslide which occurred due to the incessant rainfall has also blocked the road which joins the district headquarters. Meanwhile, the Araniko Highway which was blocked from Tuesday due to the landslip has not resumed yet.
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Steps to prevent landslides soon
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 would be made risk-free through development of retaining walls, afforestation, bamboo plantation and setting up physical barriers like sacks of sand and walkways.
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Landslides, deaths and more exercises in futility (editorial)
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 relevant agencies of the government were once again blamed for their failure to effectively fight rampant hill cutting.