Flash Floods

Tropical Weather Hurricane Agatha

Hurricane Agatha barrels towards southwest Mexico

May 30, 2022

Liberians lament mounting municipal waste

Liberia grapples with heaps of city waste

April 28, 2022

Ogun State Government has asked residents to brace up for rainy season, in order to prevent flooding and associated calamities during the season.

Ogun charges residents to brace up for rainy season

April 21, 2022

Local divers stationed by the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have rescued three residents drowned in heavy floods that submerged the Dogongada community in the Lokogoma District of the FCT following a heavy rainfall last Monday.

FEMA rescues three as flood ravages FCT community

April 20, 2022

An aerial view shows destroyed houses on a collapsed mountain side along the coastline in the village of Pilar, Abuyog town, Leyte province on April 14, 2022 day after a landslide struck the village due to heavy rains at the height of tropical Storm Megi. (Photo by Bobbie ALOTA / AFP)

Death toll from Philippines landslides, floods hits 148

April 15, 2022

Men sift through the rubble of a church which collapsed onto a house killing four children in Clermont, Durban, South Africa, April 13, 2022. REUTERS-Rogan Ward

South Africa releases emergency funds for deadly floods on east coast

April 15, 2022

A bus shelter is submerged under water in Brisbane. [Tertius Pickard-AP Photo]

Death toll rises in historic flooding on Australia’s east coast

March 2, 2022

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African nations forced to spend on climate adaptation – study

February 26, 2022

Zimbabwean teens are resorting to sex work. News24

Zimbabwean teens resorting to sex work as climate change hampers farming jobs, worsens hunger

February 14, 2022

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Ten killed by floods in Madagascar capital

January 18, 2022

A family evacuate from their flooded home following heavy rain in Bandung on November 3, 2021. (Photo by Timur Matahari / AFP)

Deadly floods hit Indonesia’s Java, mud hampers relief work

November 5, 2021

In the heyday of the Ein Gedi spa in the 1960s, holidaymakers could marinate in heated pools and then slip into the briny Dead Sea. Now the same beach is punctured by craters.

Sinkholes on receding Dead Sea shore mark ‘nature’s revenge’

November 3, 2021

South Sudanese refugees try to repair their hut in flood waters at a refugee camp which was inundated after heavy rain near in al-Qanaa in southern Sudan. [Ashraf Shazly-AFP]

South Sudanese refugees homeless again after Sudan floods

September 23, 2021

This handout picture courtesy of Dave Lucas shows a flooded parking structure in Southwest Hoboken, New Jersey, after a night of high winds and rain from the remnants of Hurricane Ida on September 2, 2021 – The remnants of Hurricane Ida triggered spectacular flash flooding and a rare state of emergency in New York City overnight into Thursday, killing at least 14 people in what was called a historic weather event. (Photo by Dave LUCAS / AFP)

At least 44 dead as flash floods hit US northeast

September 3, 2021

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks about Afghanistan, from the East Room of the White House in Washington, U.S. August 26, 2021. REUTERS-Jonathan Ernst

Hurricane Ida: Joe Biden approves New York, New Jersey emergency declaration

September 3, 2021