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Tonle Sap in Cambodia is the largest lake in Southeast Asia. Each year, when the dry season sets in, the waters of the flooded forest recede, the mangrove roots poke out through the mud, and the flooded forest turns into a tinder box.
This study compares the Chamoli disaster with the 2025 Blatten avalanche in Switzerland, where early warning, and prompt communication and response, worked to evacuate people to safety.
In Bangladesh's haor region, a combination of population pressure, deforestation of natural flood barriers, and intensifying climate change is driving devastating flash floods that displace vulnerable communities in a cycle of poverty and disaster.
Communities are now fighting to reinvigorate taro cultivation because it’s more resilient to climate shocks: storms have led to the islands being cut off from food shipments, but those with healthy taro crops were able to feed themselves and others.
Climate change is disproportionately affecting developing countries such as India, where the rural sector remains highly vulnerable due to inadequate climate infrastructure and limited adaptive capacity.
This publication discusses how community-based rain monitoring in India enhances disaster preparedness by enabling local collection and use of rainfall data to improve early warning systems and community resilience to extreme weather and flooding.
Following the significant loss of lives and homes in the recent disaster in Sri Lanka , the NBRO is introducing specific types of housing models suitable for flat and sloped terrains.
In the wake of the deadly floods and landslides that struck Indonesia in late 2025, the nation’s environment ministry has sued six companies, seeking 4.8 trillion rupiah ($284 million) in environmental damages linked to the disasters.
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