Heavy downpours battered South Korea for the ninth straight day Monday as rescue workers tried to search for survivors of landslides, mudslides and drowned vehicles in the most destructive storm to hit the country this year.
A staggering 218 million people, spanning countries around the world including India, face a serious threat of flooding due to alarming levels of plastic pollution.
A recent study by atmospheric scientists from the Indian Institute of Technology revealed that atmospheric rivers were the direct cause of the devastating floods during the summer monsoon season in India between 1985 and 2020.
The floods and droughts caused by the La Niña Phenomenon in the world could last until March 2023, according to a recent alert from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The latest report by Save The Children and the Free University of Brussels, titled “Generation Hope: 2.4 billion reasons to end the global climate and inequality crisis,” found that 774 million children face a triple threat from high climate risk
The floods in West Africa, the worst in the last 10 years, have caused hundreds of deaths and forced the displacement of millions of people, said a report by the United Nations Refugee Agency
Nearly a quarter of the world's population is exposed to significant flood risks, according to new research published Tuesday, which warns that people in poorer countries are more vulnerable.