Resilience building in flood-prone areas require capacity-building of the community so that people can anticipate, absorb, adapt, mitigate and transfer disaster risk Villagers try to repair a breached ...

The tragedy of floods in Bihar is an annual saga. This year, according to the eastern Indian state’s disaster management department, 1,333 villages in 16 districts were flooded, affecting a population ...

While we need some time to understand the extent of damage Cyclone Sitrang has caused, I assume that the overall damage would be much less than previous such calamities. I have learnt from the ...

Life had come to a standstill in the Ganga-Brahmaputra floodplains where large tracts of land were reeling under floods. Everywhere there were submerged houses, broken bridges, and wasted railway ...

KARACHI: Ten projects to strengthen the River Indus embankments and canals have been approved by the Indus River Commission, a top-level body of the irrigation department. Meanwhile, 33 other schemes ...

While dams and embankments are often touted as interventions for better flood management, they have often been at the root of more severe flood disasters. This is not the first flood disaster in the ...

Sunamganj, May 1 -- Unplanned embankments and heavy rainfall have worsened waterlogging in Sunamganj's haor basin, causing widespread damage to Boro paddy and triggering concern among farmers and ...

With a driving vision of building tomorrow, a collection of excavators are helping to protect the Sundarbans, a historic region between India and Bangladesh, from the threat of flooding. In Bengali, ...

Hundreds of people in Hanoi's Quoc Oai District reinforced embankments to prevent floods on Sunday, following two days of torrential downpours. At 5 a.m., floodwater from a forest in Hoa Binh Province ...

Notobor Malo plants mangroves next to his home every year to halt erosion by the rising sea. Some saplings die, but some survive to protect his riverside home in Mathurapur, a village in the Satkhira ...

The administration has intensified surveillance on the embankments of the river Kosi following increase in its water level due to continuous rainfall in its catchment areas in Nepal.