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Displaying 800 of about 800 resultsBy Dechen Tshering
The 2016 monsoon was much heavier than usual affecting almost all of Bhutan, especially in the south.
Landslides damaged most of the country’s major highways and smaller roads. Bridges were washed away, isolating communities.
The Phuentsholing -Thimphu highway which carries food and fuel from India to half…
ESA and the Asian Development Bank have joined forces to help the Indonesian government use satellite information to guide the redevelopment following the earthquake and tsunami that devastated the provincial capital of Palu and surroundings last year.
On 28 September 2018, the Indonesian island of Sulawesi was struck by a 7.5 magnitude earthquake. Th…
By Tim Hornyak
Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, researchers from around the world gathered virtually in July for a joint conference of the Japan Geoscience Union and AGU (JpGU-AGU Joint Meeting 2020), and one topic they discussed is of critical importance to the region: the growing threat from typhoons as the planet heats up.
Typhoons and hurric…
By Arjun Shah and Basanta Pratap Singh
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Around 14 hectares of land has been swept away by landslides and floods in the last decade and both the settlements, home to more than 300 families, are still at high risk.
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Local residents of the two villages are still coming to terms with disasters of the past that have threatened to displace th…
By Katherine Kornei
Taroko National Park, famous for a precipitous marble gorge that cuts through it, is in a futile fight with gravity. Rockfalls litter the park's serpentine main highway. The scars of at least a dozen landslides punctuate the view in all directions. Maintenance crews are perpetually spraying concrete on slopes in a last-ditch effort…