Floods in Asia
Scientists from the World Agroforestry Centre in Indonesia and Wageningen University and Research have developed an approach in Indonesia which stimulates the local population to buffer the drainage in catchment…
Update 3 – 28 May 2017 According to the latest figures from Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Centre (DMC), flooding and landslides have left: 442,299 people affected (114,124 families) 146 dead…
Storms associated with the advancing monsoon in the Northern Indian Ocean’s Bay of Bengal were analyzed by NASA with the GPM or Global Precipitation Measurement mission core satellite. The GPM…
Thailand’s Department of Disaster Prevention and Mitigation (DDPM) said yesterday that 2 people have died in flooding in Khiri Mat district of Sukhothai province. In what were described as unprecedented…
Heavy rain has been affecting northern and central areas of Thailand since 15 May, causing floods in several provinces. Local disaster officials report that some areas have recorded almost 300…
At least 7 people have died in Indonesia after a period of heavy rain from 11 May caused landslides and floods in several provinces on the islands of Sulawesi, Borneo…
Flooding has been reported in at least 6 provinces in southern and eastern China after heavy rain and severe weather including hail, since 11 May, 2017. The recent flooding comes…
China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs (MCA) says that heavy rain caused major flooding in parts of Guangdong Province yesterday, 07 May 2017. Quoting reports from Guangdong Provincial Civil Affairs Department,…
At least 10 people have died in flash floods in Magelang Regency in Central Java province, Indonesia. The floods struck on 29 April after a period of heavy rain, according…
House-building in Indian-administered Kashmir has put people at higher risk of floods, and made region more reliant on food imports, writes Athar Parvaiz. SRINAGAR, India, April 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)…
BANGKOK, April 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When heavy rains triggered floods in China last year, washing away homes, causing landslides and flooding farmland, the damage resulted in overall losses…
Heavy rain from Friday 21 April 2017 caused flooding in low-lying areas of the South West Garo Hills district of Meghalaya in north eastern India. Local media report that around…
Flooding has been reported in 7 regions of Kazakhstan over the last few days after snowmelt increased river levels across many parts of the country. The country’s Committee for Emergency…
At least 9 people have been killed in flash floods in the central Philippines after heavy rain brought by Tropical Depression 02W, known locally as “Crising”. Typhoon Crising was downgraded…
Iranian Red Crescent says that flash flooding and landslides affected than 40 counties in six provinces of East Azerbaijan, West Azerbaijan, Kurdistan, Zanjan, Mazandaran and Ardebil in Iran’s northwest on…
NASA’s Terra satellite passed over newly developed Tropical Depression 02W, known locally as “Crising” as it formed east of the central and southern Philippines in the Philippine Sea early on…
