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Zimbabwe says floods have killed 246 people and left 2,000 homeless since December. (Photo: AP)

Heavy rains end drought in Zimbabwe; south devastated by floods

Since December, floods have killed 246 people, injured 128 and left nearly 2,000 homeless, a Zimbabwean minister said.

5 March 2017 6:17 PM IST

Sri Lankan military rescuers and villagers stand on the debris of a house that was destroyed in a landslide in Bellana village in Kalutara district, Sri Lanka (Photo: AP)

At least 91 killed in mudslides, floods due to heavy rains in Sri...

Sri Lanka appealed to the international community including the United Nations and neighbouring countries for help.

26 May 2017 7:38 PM IST

Mudslides are common during the monsoon season in the Indian Ocean tropical island. (Photo: AP/Representational)

At least 91 killed in mudslides, floods due to heavy rains in Sri...

The people living in low lying areas around Kelani River and Kalu Ganga are cautioned about possible floods.

26 May 2017 1:10 PM IST

35 killed, 8 missing as flash floods hit northwestern Iran

The districts of Ajabshir and Azarshahr were the worst hit.

15 April 2017 6:05 PM IST

Rescuers inspect the damage in a neighborhood hit by a landslide in the village of Banaran, Ponorogo, East Java, Indonesia. (Photo: AP)

1 dead, 28 feared buried in Indonesia landslide

In September, almost thirty people died in devastating floods and landslides in Garut, West Java.

1 April 2017 7:54 PM IST

Emergency personnel and local people work at the site of a landslide in Xinmo village in Maoxian County in southwestern Chinas Sichuan Province. Dozens of people are feared buried by a landslide that unleashed huge rocks and a mass of earth that crashed into their homes, a county government said. (Photo: AP)

Rain triggered floods kill at least 34 in China, 93 still missing

Over 3,000 rescuers are searching for 93 people still buried under rocks and mud by a landslide in southwest China's...

26 Jun 2017 3:16 PM IST

The strongest evidence for a human influence was found for temperature-related events (Photo: AFP)

Floods, fires in 2015 caused by climate change

The latest report is based on 25 peer-reviewed research papers that examine episodes of extreme weather of 2015 over...

16 Dec 2016 10:35 AM IST

People walk past fallen debris blocking the Badrinath National Highway near Joshimath, in Chamoli district, Thursday, July 11, 2024. (PTI Photo)

Ranjona Banerji | Are we too cheap to save the Himalayas?

In order to build more infrastructure and to have more progress and development, there has to be even more destruction...

14 July 2024 12:05 AM IST