Twin typhoons renewed fears of a humanitarian crisis in North Korea, where poor drainage, widespread deforestation and crumbling infrastructure can turn even a routine rainstorm into a catastrophic flood. Typhoon Bolaven struck the North on Tuesday and Wednesday, submerging houses …
Searchers pulled out 15 bodies Thursday that had buried under mud and debris after landslides and floods caused by monsoon rains in southern Bangladesh, raising the toll to 106 deaths this week. The landslides occurred mainly in remote villages with …
More than 2,000 people have evacuated homes as a tropical storm causes flooding in Taiwan. Tropical storm Talim was disrupting air and rail traffic Wednesday. Landslides buried a section of highway. Television reports say seawater rushed through a broken dike …
A replacement for one of the most well-traveled and iconic bridges in the Adirondack High Peaks was completed and opened to hikers Sunday as crews continue to repair backcountry trail damage from Tropical Storm Irene in August. The bridge across …
As word reached Madagascar’s capital that 65 people were killed in the southeast in landslides and floods caused by a tropical storm, the prime minister set out Tuesday to lead an emergency mission to the hardest hit regions. The storm, …
Soldiers in northeastern India cleared a path Wednesday to a hydroelectric project where 17 people were confirmed killed by landslides in a powerful Himalayan earthquake, bringing the overall toll in the disaster to 99. The 6.9 magnitude quake Sunday evening …
A tropical storm has unleashed floods and landslides that have left at least seven people dead in the northeastern Philippine province of Albay. Albay Gov. Joey Salceda says three children have died in a landslide in a mountainside village, while …
Tropical storm Aere lashed the northeastern Philippines on Sunday, killing at least nine people and forcing more than 100,000 villagers to flee from farming towns threatened by landslides. The storm slammed into Catanduanes province with winds of 53 miles (85 …