Tag: flooding

Update: Nine dead after Indonesian capital hit by New Year flooding

Nine people died after Indonesia's capital was hit by its deadliest flooding in years, authorities...

Beavers brought in to beat flooding in Britain

Beavers are to be reintroduced in two parts of Britain as part of plans to...

The serious sea level threat

In 2015, the government created an interdepartmental working group on climate change. Four years later,...

Venice comes up for air after week of record flooding

Venice sought to return to normal life today after a week of unprecedented flooding that...

Death toll from India, Nepal, Bangladesh floods jumps to over 300

The death toll from severe flooding in parts of India, Nepal and Bangladesh rose to...

Gov’t installs floodgates in Ilha Verde public housing projects

Macau (MNA) - The Infrastructure Development Office (GDI) has stated on Thursday that...

Government wants mobile dam ‘as soon as possible’ to avoid floods

Macau's Chief Executive, Fernando Chui Sai On, on Wednesday called for greater speed in the...

Rescuers deploy, homes collapse amid flooding in cyclone-hit Mozambique

Rescuers were racing to help people caught in fast-rising floodwaters in Mozambique's cyclone-hit city of...

Flooding starts in Mozambique after cyclone, death toll rises to five

Mozambican officials on Saturday urged those living near two rivers in the country's north to...

Canada’s Montreal declares emergency over flooding

Montreal - The Canadian city of Montreal on Friday declared a state of...

Cholera cases rise to 139 as Mozambique prepares mass vaccinations

The number of confirmed cholera cases in cyclone-ravaged Mozambique climbed sharply to 139 Thursday as...

Traffic diverted on April 6 due to culvert box reconstruction

A project to construct culvert boxes and rain pumps along the Inner Harbour will cause...

Rescue teams race to save hundreds trapped by Mozambique cyclone

Aid workers rushed to save people trapped by floods around the Mozambican port city of...

Macau | Tender for custom-made flood gates for Ponte 16 awarded to Singaporean company

A tender to build personalised flood systems around Ponte 16 has been awarded for MOP4.18...

Australian flooding hits cattle herds, fertiliser output

Australia's largest fertiliser maker and its biggest listed cattle farmer warned investors of sizeable losses...

Once-in-a-century floods batter parts of Australia’s Queensland

Once-in-a-century flooding in part of the eastern Australian state of Queensland looked set to worsen...

Floods kill 9 in Madagascar’s capital

Heavy rains and flooding swept away houses in Madagascar's capital of Antanarivo have killed nine...

Floods, blackouts after Thai storm, but tourist islands spared

Floods and blackouts caused by Tropical Storm Pabuk left nearly 30,000 people in evacuation shelters...

The promised tidal barrier | 30 doubts for 2019

To minimise the impact of flooding, the Macau Government has conducted a series of works...

Nigeria flood victims a ‘major emergency’: Red Cross

Nigeria is facing a "major emergency," with tens of thousands of people displaced by recent...

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