FLOODS

Flooding in town

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Japan spent mightily to soften nature's wrath, but can it ever be enough?

Oct 17, 2019, 5:35 pm

Hard to link individual storms to climate change but warming oceans can raise probability of storms: Experts

Oct 16, 2019, 4:44 pm

Typhoon Hagibis leaves trail of destruction across Japan

Oct 14, 2019, 5:00 am
Damage to houses, cars and power poles believed to be caused by a tornado in Ichihara, east of Tokyo yesterday, according to Japanese media. Typhoon Hagibis comes as the destruction wrought by last month's Typhoon Faxai remains fresh in many minds. A

Japan to assess damage wrought by Hagibis

Oct 13, 2019, 5:00 am
The debris of houses damaged by Typhoon Hagibis in Ichihara, Chiba prefecture, east of Tokyo, yesterday. Tokyo came to a virtual standstill yesterday, as train services were halted and malls and eateries shuttered. Supermarket shelves were emptied by

Millions told to evacuate as Typhoon Hagibis batters Japan

Oct 13, 2019, 5:00 am

More than 1,600 die in India's heaviest monsoon season in 25 years

Oct 1, 2019, 6:52 pm
People using a makeshift raft in a flooded neighbourhood of Patna in the eastern state of Bihar yesterday. Heavy rain has killed at least 113 people in India's Uttar Pradesh and Bihar states over the past three days, officials said yesterday as flood

113 killed in India as monsoon season continues

Oct 1, 2019, 5:00 am

Floods kill 113 in north India in late monsoon burst, jail and hospital submerged

Sep 30, 2019, 4:35 pm
Patients and their relatives waiting out the floods at the waterlogged Nalanda Medical College and Hospital in Patna, in India's north-eastern state of Bihar, yesterday.

Monsoon rains kill 59 in northern India

Sep 29, 2019, 5:00 am