By Angela Fritz March 20 A crowd yells encouragement as a woman trapped by a mudslide near Lima, Peru drags herself out of the flow and attempts to make her way back […]
The unnamed phenomenon behind Peru’s extraordinary flooding
Global Water Partnership
Global Competition for #YouthLed Projects: Flood & Drought Special 2/28/2017 The significance of engaging young people in the design and implementation of policies, plans and standards in Disaster Risk Reduction has been […]
El-Nino, poor urban design leave Chennai battered
Guataman Bhaskaran on December 4, 2015 in Asia Times News & Features The recent rain in the southern Indian coastal city of Chennai — unimaginably torrential and reportedly as heavy as it […]
Wettest start to an El Niño season in Pacific Northwest as storms hit California
(Kristyna Wentz-Graff / The Oregonian via AP) Rosanna Xia and Rong-Gong Lin II Contact Reporters A powerful El Niño continues to gain strength, the latest forecast released Thursday said. And while El […]
El Niño in southern Africa 2015: Weather Phenomenon May Devastate Communities with Drought and Floods
UNIFEC 2015 A potentially record-breaking El Niño brewing in the tropical Pacific Ocean will soon hit southern Africa with Zimbabwe included. But a majority of communities are not sure how to prepare. […]
Hunger Rises in Somalia as El Nino Floods Loom
Reuters Sep. 01, 2015 NAIROBI: The number of Somalis in hunger has risen in the past six months, the United Nations said Monday, predicting a further spike as the Horn of Africa […]
El Niño may trigger floods, famine and sickness in much of the world
Monte Morin LA Times A fog of suffocating smoke settles over the Indonesian countryside, sickening hundreds of thousands of people and triggering an environmental crisis. In Peru, officials abandon plans to […]
