The hyperactive hurricane season in the Pacific has jumped up another gear, spawning a record trio of category 4 strength tropical storms that will give the powerful El Nino event yet another boost
Floods, landslides and a cyclone have made at least 180,000 people in Bangladesh homeless, with thousands living in makeshift shelters on river banks, the International Federation of Red Cross and
“It is safe to predict more unpredictability,” says a special report in The Economist on the Indian monsoon that continues to defy the best forecasts made by the best of models.
This report documents good practices and identifies various issues which may need to be considered for effective and coordinated response for cyclone disaster risk management. It takes into account the efforts made by the States of Andhra Pradesh and Odisha in managing Cyclone Hudhud in 2014.
Update: 1:26PM THE south-west Pacific has experienced its fair share of natural disasters in the past two years and experts warn more may be on the way.
Nearly 20 million people were forced to flee their homes due to floods, storms and earthquakes last year, a problem likely to worsen due to climate change, but which could be eased by better constr
India is among top three Asian nations after the Philippines and China where large number of people have been displaced due to disasters as 19.3 million people were displaced globally last year alone, according to the latest estimates released by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).