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    Calamitous rain and floods in South Africa

    18 Apr 2022

    According to official reports, 443 people have died in the torrential rains that lashed Kwazulu-Natal province and its capital, Durban. Schools, churches, office buildings got uprooted. And amidst the rains and floods, people had no water to

    Yellowstone floods reveal forecasting flaws

    09 Jul 2022

    The Yellowstone National Park area’s weather forecast the morning of June 12 seemed fairly tame: warmer temperatures and rain showers would accelerate mountain

    Great work by UAE authorities

    30 Jul 2022

    The quick response from the government entities and volunteers to save people struggling with heavy rain and floods in the United Arab Emirates is highly laudable

    Much more needs to be done on floods

    22 Oct 2022

    Floods have been wreaking havoc in various parts of the world. Thousands of people across Australia’s southeast were asked to evacuate their homes,

    Pakistan now needs endless relief

    28 Aug 2022

    Pope Francis made a fervent appeal to help Pakistan fight the horror of floods. Others followed his call. As Europe battles an unusual drought Asian countries are tackling the fury of the floods. Heart-breaking pictures of victims are emerging from different parts of the country. The death toll is racing upwards. It has crossed

    Stay united

    29 Aug 2022

    People of Pakistan are going through the toughest time of their lives. More than 60 per cent of Pakistan is facing heavy rain and floods. The most affected areas of Pakistan are Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and some parts of Punjab (“Pakistan monsoon flooding death toll tops 1,000: Official,” Aug. 28, Gulf Today website).

    Consequences of climate change scary

    29 Aug 2022

    Pakistan has witnessed unprecedented higher rainfall in provinces like Sindh and Balochistan this year. The number of people who died in the flash floods, caused by the excessive rain has risen to more than a thousand people, and hundreds of thousands of others have been left homeless. International aid has been rushed from

    Plight of refugees gets more and more hapless

    28 Dec 2020

    If there is one breed of people whose position shows no sign of improvement, it is the refugees. Be it in Bangladesh or Lebanon, their predicament seems precarious as they get tossed around from place to place – homeless, hapless, helpless.

    VIDEO: Hundreds of thousands evacuated in China after heaviest rains in decades

    21 Jun 2022

    The average rainfall in Guangdong, Fujian and Guangxi provinces between early May and the middle of June reached 621 millimetres (24 inches), the highest since 1961, according to China's National Meteorological Center.

    Two dead, more than 2,500 evacuated as Cyclone Sarai lashes Fiji

    29 Dec 2019

    The Fiji National Disaster Management Office said one person was in intensive care and more than 2,500 people had moved to 70 evacuation centres. The category two tropical cyclone is not expected to make landfall in Fiji, though its weather service has issued storm and flood warnings for parts of the country.

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