Flood recovery and dealing with the aftermath of flooding
In Kerala state, authorities and mental health experts are providing community-based care for those struggling to deal with the trauma of flash floods and landslides IDUKKI, India, Aug 15 (Thomson…
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the Asian Development Bank have joined forces to help the Indonesian government use satellite information to guide the redevelopment following the earthquake and tsunami…
Development agency Practical Action found solar micro-grids built with storm risks in mind were largely able to withstand Cyclone Idai and could help local people recover faster, writes Charles Pensulo…
“I’m looking at (a loss of) at least $300, $400 an acre, maybe more.” US farmers are facing big losses after the spring floods of 2019, writes Stephen Starr for…
The 2012 hurricane widely known as Superstorm Sandy left at least an estimated 325,000 New Jersey homes damaged or destroyed. Nearly seven years later, many of the New Jersey residents…
In response to a series of floods that wreaked havoc across large parts of Tajikistan in early June, the European Union is providing €70,000 EUR (over TJS 750,000) in humanitarian…
The Centre for Research on the Epidemiology of Disasters (CRED) have released their annual disaster statistics report for 2018. According to CRED’s figures, in 2018, there were 315 natural disaster…
NEW YORK, June 21 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When community leaders in the town of Piermont, just north of New York City, ask residents, “How long do you want to…
NEW YORK, June 24 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Victims of worsening floods linked to climate change plan to “bombard” U.S. lawmakers with videos and postcards showing the human toll of…
The British town of Wainfleet in Lincolnshire is underwater. After two months rain in two days, the River Steeping burst its banks, and 580 homes were evacuated. Curiously, the advice…
The economic cost of devastating hurricanes and other extreme weather events is even worse than we thought, writes Gary W. Yohe, Wesleyan University for The Conversation. June marks the official…
How our floating homes will help people in flood-prone countries, by Nandan Mukherjee, University of Dundee for Conversation. Around 40% of the global population live in coastal areas less than…
BHUBANESWAR, India, June 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Six weeks after India’s eastern state of Odisha was battered by the strongest storm since 2013, officials are considering how to build…
Recent devastating flooding in parts of South Africa as well as the second massive cyclone to batter neighbouring Mozambique and Zimbabwe in just two months has raised alarm bells about…
Fani, a rare summer cyclone in the Bay of Bengal, hit eastern India on May 3. It is one of the strongest cyclones to have hit India in the last…
Around the world, many families are facing both conflict and climate change pressures, fleeing one crisis only to find themselves facing a different one. Report by Anastasia Moloney for Thomson…
