Sikkim is facing great challenge to protect the natural resource from land degradation and erosion. The whole state of Sikkim is hilly and cris-crossed by number of streams. Soil erosion is one of the major problems. The hills of Sikkim mainly consist of gneissose and half-schistose rocks, making their soil brown clay, and generally poor and shallow.
Isolated towns in southern Brazil appealed for medicine and other supplies on Tuesday as the deaths from landslides rose to 84 and thousands of people remained cut off from aid, clean water and power.
Eight bodies have been recovered from the wreckage left by a mudslide that swept away part of an upscale neighbourhood in the Colombian city of Medellin, authorities said on Monday.
Four other victims have not been recovered, emergency officials said.
The mudslide in El Poblado, Medellin's most affluent district, swept away houses as their occupants slept early on Sunday morning.
A 12-year-old boy was killed and 15 people were missing and feared dead after a mudslide destroyed part of an upscale neighbourhood in the Colombian city of Medellin on Sunday, local authorities said.
The northern industrial city, like much of the rest of Colombia, has been hit by seasonal rains that have saturated the earth, leading to deadly avalanches in hilly areas.
Jakarta: Rescuers searched for survivors on Friday after a landslide crashed into a village in central Indonesia, killing two people and burying at least 13 others, a disaster official said.
A national consultative meeting on management of preventing natural disasters that take place in the South Asian countries kicked off in the capital on Wednesday.
Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Home Affairs Bamdev Gautam attended the inaugural function of the meeting organised by the European Commission (EC).
Mudslides in southwest China on the weekend killed at least 20 people, with another 42 missing in the hilly countryside, official media reported.
The torrents of mud and rock hit near Chuxiong city in Yunnan province, and in countryside near the province capital Kunming, toppling or damaging nearly 1,000 houses, Xinhua news agency reported.
At least 24 people have been killed and thousands evacuated in Honduras after days of torrential rain, landslides and flooding, rescue workers said on Wednesday.
Some 25,000 people are homeless as relentless continue to pound low-lying northern Honduras and downpours swell rivers in some of the poorest parts in the south of the country.
Floods and landslides triggered by incessant rainfall since Friday continue to claim lives in various mid and farwestern districts of the country. Thousands have been displaced while hundreds are still awaiting rescue in their waterlogged villages.
In Kanchanpur district alone, the death toll has reached 15, with seven more reported deaths, most of them children.
