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Deadly flooding in China and other parts of Asia has shown there is need to be better prepared for the increasing force of nature.
As the death toll in southern Turkey and northern Syria climbs, now is the time for local and global mercy efforts to get under way.
As extreme weather events become more frequent, there is a need not only for humanitarian support but to avoid repeating mistakes in the future. An example is the need for sustained investment in flood mitigation planning and action.
- 13 people including 8 children were still missing after a sewage-polluted river swollen by heavy rains swept away precarious homes in the Guatemalan capital
- In Mexico, at least 7 people died and 9 were missing after heavy rain turned a mountain stream into a torrent of floodwater that swept away villagers
Mayors from 16 cities and one town in metropolitan Manila sent millions of students home due to the smog, some government offices suspended work.
The dams in question are the Jaza Dam – between the partly destroyed city of Derna and Benghazi – and the Qattara Dam near Benghazi.
Amid conflicting reports on the number of dead in the flood, thousands of people are missing, while 891 buildings in the coastal city of Derna are said to be destroyed.
Authorities in Derna race to collect and bury the growing number of flood victims before bodies turn the Libyan coastal city into a massive contamination site.
A global effort to assist stricken Libya gathered pace after huge flash flood slammed into the Mediterranean coastal city of Derna on Sunday.
The responses in both Morocco and Libya – one a stable nation, the other torn by war and ruled by rival governments – show the difficulty of separating humanitarian aid from political considerations.
From this year’s Greek wildfires to the 2010 Icelandic volcano eruption and 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami, these eight natural disasters left their mark on tourists.
Morocco’s strongest-ever earthquake killed more than 2,800 people, and hopes were fading of finding more survivors under the rubble.
The death toll from the Friday’s devastating earthquake reached nearly 2,900 on Monday.
Authorities in eastern Libya said at least 2,000 people were killed and thousands more were missing after a massive flood ripped through the city of Derna following a heavy storm and rain.
Some citizens drove hundreds of kilometres to distribute food to needy villagers, claiming authorities “seem to be absent” following Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in over six decades.
The death toll from floods that hit villages in central Greece has risen to 11 with seven missing, as authorities rescue hundreds more people, bringing the total to more than 2,850.
Authorities have declared three days of national mourning after the 6.8-magnitude tremor, the country’s deadliest in decades.
Police recover body of man reported missing after being washed away by floods amid record-breaking rainfall that struck city two nights ago.
Interior ministry figures showed 1,037 people are dead and 1,200 injured.
Flooding triggered by severe rainstorms also hit neighbouring Bulgaria and Turkey, leaving a total of 15 people dead in the three countries.
The move will save the islanders and provide reliable sources of drinking water, sanitation and electricity, but puts at risk their culture and way of life
The ‘first-of-its-kind’ lawsuit accuses the governments of gross negligence leading to the fires that razed the town of Lahaina. The lawsuit also names the state’s Hawaiian Electric and a major landowner on the island.
The latest in a string of weather disasters to hit Brazil, the cyclone is the deadliest ever in the state of Rio Grande do Sul, Governor Eduardo Leite told a news conference.
Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis blamed recent wildfires and current storms on climate change, while conceding that his government ‘clearly didn’t manage things as well as we would have liked’ on the wildfire front.
Turbine built by the Three Gorges Corporation produced 384.1 megawatt hours, or enough to power nearly 170,000 homes, on Friday.
The national weather agency issued a maximum red alert, which means possible extreme danger, for Sunday in the Madrid region, Toledo province, and the city of Cadiz.
