China’s massive floods move east, battering communities along Yangtze River
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Some 37,000 people affected by flash floods in Somalia
Locals wade through floodwater after bursting of a river in Beledweyne, central Somalia, May 17, 2020. (Xinhua/Hassan Bashi) Flash floods caused by heavy rains have affected about 37,000 people in Somalia, causing a humanitarian crisis in the regions affected, Somalia’s Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs said on Tuesday. The Ministry of Humanitarian Affairs and Disaster Management…
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Floods wreak havoc across China
PHOTO: AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE Rescuers evacuating residents in a flooded area in China’s southwestern Chongqing in this photo taken on Sunday and released yesterday. It was the municipality’s worst flood since 1940. China’s national observatory yesterday renewed its blue alert for rainstorms as incessant downpours continued to wreak havoc in vast stretches of the country. Torrential…
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Heavy Rain, Flooding in China Force Evacuation of Nearly 80,000
Residents stand on a bank of a river as they look at the rubble of a bridge damaged by flood following heavy rainfall in Nanjing, Fujian province, China, July 9, 2019. BEIJING – The heaviest average rainfall to lash a swathe of southern and eastern China in more than half a century brought torrential rain…
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Concerns over social-distancing as floods affect 300,000 in Assam
Two dead so far, around 20,000 in relief camps. After approximately 300,000 were affected by pre-monsoon floods in 11 districts across Assam, concerns have emerged over the adherence to social-distancing norms to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19). Two individuals have died so far, with around 20,000 sheltered in relief camps. For…
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Environmental disasters across world in April 2020
Authorities in Afghanistan warn more than 7 million people still at risk as 56 people die from severe flooding. ANKARA The fourth month of 2020 saw numerous environmental disasters that impaired climate change and vice versa, including severe flooding in Afghanistan, landslides in Papua New Guinea and Kenya, and wildfires in Ukraine and Poland. Here…
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Torrential rains and flash floods threatens millions
KABUL: The ministry of state in natural disaster management said that the lives of over seven million people are in danger due to fatal floods flashed across the country last month as the level of rainfall has been in high summation. Ahmad Tamim Azimi, spokesman for the ministry said more than one million people estimated…
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Typhoon Hagibis: At least 10 dead, 16 missing
At least 10 people were killed and 16 missing as a powerful typhoon slammed Japan, causing major flooding and landslides across the central and eastern parts of the country and leaving hundreds of thousands without power. More than 120 people were injured as many areas were hit by record amounts of rainfall and violent winds,…
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Typhoon Hagibis: Tokyo braced for battering as ‘worst storm in 60 years’ roars in
The threat of widespread flooding and landslides compounded by an earthquake in nearby Chiba prefecture. Damaged caused by typhoon Hagibis in Chiba Prefecture, east of Tokyo. Photograph: Jiji Press/EPA Evacuation orders were issued to more than 800,000 households in Tokyo on Saturday as super-typhoon Hagibis threatened power cuts and widespread flooding. Storm surges and high…
