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 …
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs, Bamdev Gautam has said that flood and landslide incidents across the country have affected 10 districts so far. Fielding queries of lawmakers in a meeting of Legislature-Parliament Wednesday, DPM Gautam said the affected districts are Sindhupalchok, Sankhuasabha, Kailali, Kanchanpur, Baitadi, Dadeldhura, Bajura, …
A total of Rs 9.1 million has accumulated in ''Sunkoshi Flood Victims Relief Fund'' established to help the landslide victims of Jure and Mankha areas of Sindhupalchowk district. According to the Chairman of Sindhupalchowk Chamber of Commerce and Industry, the Chamber along with Nepal Truck Container Entrepreneur Association and Nepal …
THE earthquake that struck in southwest China’s Yunnan Province at the weekend triggered landslides blocking rivers to create rapidly growing bodies of water that could unleash more destruction on survivors of the disaster that has killed 410 people. More than 2,300 people were injured and 12 are missing after the …
Noted social worker Medha Patkar on Sunday said that the experts of geological survey of India alone can't determine as to what are the reasons for the Malin landslide tragedy and attributed the tragedy to greedy development model being followed by Union and state Government. Addressing a press conference along …
BHOJPUR: At least five persons were killed and five others went missing when a landslide buried three houses at Syabun VDC in Sankhuwasabha district early this morning. According to district police office, the landslide triggered by incessant rain buried three houses belonging to Kritiman Koirala, 62, Purna Koirala, 40 and …
Following massive landslide and flooding that claimed dozens of lives at Jure, Sindhupalchowk district on Saturday, the swollen Koshi River had terrified people living along its banks in the Nepal-India border area of Saptari district. However, the panicked locals are currently breathing a sigh of relief as the water level …
CHAUTARA, Aug. 6: The government has officially declared around 123 people missing in the Sindhupalchwok landslide dead. Around 123 people went missing in the devastating landslide that hit Jure of the district in the wee hours of last Saturday. Only 33 bodies (out of 156 went missing in the disaster) …
KATHMANDU, AUG 06 - Floods and landslides cause a huge loss of lives and properties across the country during monsoon season. Given the instances of disasters and the damage they cause evey year, the government lags far behind when it comes to preparedness, prevention and response. Haphazard and unscientific development …
A flash flood that killed four people at a summer festival in northern Italy has reopened long-standing complaints that chronic environmental neglect has destabilized fragile hillsides and created the conditions for deadly landslides. A thunderstorm on Saturday sent a wall of water and mud through a gathering of about 100 …
NORTH SALT LAKE, Utah — A landslide struck an upscale suburban Salt Lake City community on Tuesday, destroying a home and forcing evacuations as a rain-soaked hillside tumbled from above. No one was hurt in the slide in North Salt Lake, where residents of the manicured neighborhood near a tennis …
KOLHAPUR: State forest minister Patangrao Kadam said that he has ordered a detailed survey of villages located at the foothills which may be vulnerable to landslide situations like Malin in Pune district. Kadam also holds the portfolio of the relief and rehabilitation ministry. Malin village, home to some 400 residents, …
People in Ambegaon tehsil are angry over the suggestion by the Geological Survey of India (GSI) that paddy cultivation contributed to the tragedy. "The preliminary report by the GSI pointing to land flattening and terracing as the primary cause for the tragedy shouldn't be used to harass locals," says activist …
SINDHUPALCHOK: With recovery of 23 more bodies today, death toll in the landslide that struck Jure of Ramche VDC, Sindhupalchowk, on Saturday has reached 33. Among the bodies recovered today, 11 were of women, nine men and three children. Ten bodies were recovered on Saturday and Sunday. Sindhupalchowk CDO Gopal …
BHOJPUR: At least five persons were killed and five others went missing when a landslide buried three houses at Syabun VDC in Sankhuwasabha district early this morning. According to district police office, the landslide triggered by incessant rain buried three houses belonging to Kritiman Koirala, 62, Purna Koirala, 40 and …
Landslide hit Naya Nayakbada-2, Jiri of Jajarkot, after incessant rainfall on Sunday. Four houses were swept and more than a dozen displaced. Houses of Kali Bahadur Shahi, Gopal Kami, Padam Shahi and Balu Singh were brushed by the landslide, Dilip Singh, a resident of Jiri, said through telephone. No human …
Following the preliminary assessment made at the site of the landslide in Malin, scientists of the Geological Survey of India (GSI) have recommended that the authorities evacuate the houses adjacent to the landslide-affected zone. Speaking at a press conference in the city on Sunday, director general of GSI Harbans Singh …
The toll in the Malin landslide rose to 105 on Sunday, with rescue teams recovering 23 more bodies from under the debris since morning. According to National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) and Pune district administration officials, nearly 55 villagers are still feared to be trapped under the debris, which consists …
Had Questioned Largescale Deforestation For A Project The landslide that buried an entire village near Bhimashankar should come as little surprise. A 2011 central government report on the Western Ghats by internationally-acclaimed ecologist Dr Madhav Gadgil predicted landslides in the area which could be triggered by largescale deforestation for a …
KOLHAPUR: Environmentalists have expressed concern over the uncontrolled deforestation of private forests in southern Maharashtra. They said the trend of hilltop farming, developing farm houses, roads, installing wind mills and mining is causing deforestation in Kolhapur, Sangli and Satara districts. Experts have also said that razing tree cover in the …
The government's recent report announcing an increase in forest cover looks more like a case of the state agency playing the slippery slope of statistics. Wednesday's landslide in Maharashtra's Ambegaon and last year's flash floods and landslides in Uttarakhand may in reality indicate a trend likely to recur across the …
