Climate change, poor planning drive Vietnam flooding

Dozens of people dead, thousands evacuated and millions of dollars in damage. Vietnam is once again battling widespread flooding driven by climate change and poor infrastructure decisions, experts say....

Pakistan estimates Rs822 billion in flood damages

Pakistan has suffered estimated damages of about Rs822 billion ($2.9 billion) from recent floods that caused large-scale destruction across the country, Minister for Planning, Development and Special Initiatives Ahsan...

UAE expresses solidarity with Mexico, conveys condolences over flood victims

The UAE has expressed its sincere condolences and solidarity with the United Mexican States following the floods caused by heavy rainfall, which resulted in a number of deaths and...

Heavy rain in Mexico sets off floods and landslides, killing at least 37

The death toll from landslides and floods set off by incessant rainfall in central and southeastern Mexico rose to 37 people on Saturday, authorities said, a sharp increase as...

Flash floods

The death of 19 people in Indonesia flash floods made the whole world sad (“Death toll from Indonesia flash floods rises to 19” Gulf Today website). I would like...

Natural disaster

It’s a huge number of Afghan deaths in one of the deadliest earthquakes in decades. According to various reports, the death toll from a powerful earthquake that struck eastern...

Sad news

An unfortunate event of heavy rains and flash floods, which reportedly killed more than 350 people and completely destroyed a village due to cloudbursts in Pakistan’s Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province,...

'Hopeless' Florida

Trump visits Texas flood zone, defends government's disaster response

President Donald Trump defended the state and federal response to deadly flash flooding in Texas on Friday as he visited the stricken Hill Country region, where at least 120...

The Texas floods were made worse by climate denialism

The tragic news out of central Texas has been heartbreaking, but it’s also been maddening — because so many lives could have been saved if elected officials had done...