Madurai: Heavy rain in the Western Ghats left many dams in Kanyakumari and Tirunelveli districts overflowing or on the verge of it leading to flooding of many areas in Kanyakumari district.

Kochi airport shut till Saturday | Red alert in 14 dists | 1.5 lakh people in relief camps

HARBIN, Aug. 14 (Xinhua) -- Floods triggered by heavy rain have resulted in direct economic losses of over 4 billion yuan (580 million U.S.

The Indonesian capital of Jakarta is home to 10 million people but it is also one of the fastest-sinking cities in the world.

Sudanese medics say at least 23 people have been killed in heavy flooding in the past three weeks.

The July 23 dam collapse in southern Laos marked a turning point that squarely exposed the vulnerabilities of Laos’ current plans to become the “battery” of Southeast Asia.

China evacuated more than 200,000 people as a typhoon made landfall on its eastern coast late on Sunday, state media said.

Japan’s weather bureau said on Friday there is a 60 percent chance that an El Niño weather pattern could emerge during the northern hemisphere autumn, from September to November.

A German man in his 70s, who was helping supervise children at a campsite in south-east France, was missing on Thursday after being swept away by floodwaters, police said.

(Reuters) - The El Niño weather pattern has a 60 percent chance of emerging during the northern hemisphere fall of 2018, with the chances increasing to 70 percent during the subsequent winter, a U.