Sep 27, 2013

Northeast, East brace for tropical depression approaching from Vietnam

Sep 26, 2013

It is a strange occurrence to Trinbagonians when on waking one morning we find that a portion of our land has begun to sink.

You read about sinkholes occurring naturally in places such as Florida, USA, where the terrain is composed of limestone, sometimes to the extent of loss of property. Entire houses have gone down with the land in…

Sep 25, 2013

Sep 23, 2013

(Reuters) - More than 600,000 Thais have been affected by flooding since July and more than a quarter of Thailand's provinces have been inundated, prompting officials to issue landslide warnings and begin evacuation measures on Monday.

Devastating floods in 2011 killed more than 800 people and caused massive…

2013 Bottlenose Dolphin Unusual Mortality Event in the Mid-Atlantic

Under the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (as amended), an Unusual Mortality Event (UME) has been declared for…

BEIJING, Sept. 11 Jingmen Power (Reporter Wuqi Yong) reporter on the 11th from Jingmen City Land Resources Bureau, Jingmen City suburbs gypsum mine since its inception in 1970, a total of 33 ground subsidence, collapse area of ​​387,033.44 square…

1.47 million people affected by floods

Sep 6, 2013

In its latest data‚ the authority said 1.47 million people and 7‚693 villages have been hit by floods while 21‚133 houses destroyed.



Relief and rehabilitation efforts are continuing to mitigate the sufferings of the marooned people.



The agencies concerned have so far…

Sep 5, 2013

The Marshall Islands lye halfway between Hawaii and Australia, and only 2 metres above sea level. Earlier this year a freak tide nearly destroyed the capital Majuro, as it broke the surrounding walls and flooded the airport runway. A simultaneous drought left 6,000 people surviving on less than one litre of water a day, leading to the president…

Sep 5, 2013

Several thousand marooned in the coastal regions for the seventh time in the last four months

Thousands of people of Bhola and Feni have been marooned after flood control embankments collapsed and submerged large areas on the coastal areas. 

In six upazilas of Bhola,…

160 people killed, 5.4 million people affected by floods in Bihar this year.

Sep 3, 2013

Sep 1, 2013

Zarling village, a village of over a hundred years old, in Chin Hill faced unusual land slide and the residents may need to relocate, according to locals.

“We’ve experienced this kind of land slide over last 60 years but…