landslide – Desdemona Despair

A rescue team paddles down the Swannanoa River after the remnants of Hurricane Helene caused widespread flooding, downed trees, and power outages in western North Carolina, 29 September 2024. Photo: Travis Long / The News and Observer / Reuters

October 5, 2024

Asheville tragedy shows there are no climate change safe havens – North Carolina city once viewed as a safe haven for climate refugees – “Climate change is a pervasive issue that is going to affect communities all over the world – not equally – but definitely it will impact everyone, everywhere in some way”

By Kiara Alfonseca 30 September 2024 (ABC News) – Asheville, North Carolina, has been called a potential safe haven for climate refugees by real estate researchers, praised for its temperate mountain weather, distance far from the coast, experiencing less extreme heat and fewer wildfires. The city of around 95,000 people was believed markings of a place where those escaping […]

Residents wade through flood waters after a seasonal river burst its banks following heavy rainfall in Kitengela municipality of Kajiado County, near Nairobi, Kenya, 1 May 2024. Photo: Thomas Mukoya / REUTERS

May 1, 2024

Kenya flood toll rises to 181 as houses and roads are destroyed – More than 190,000 people forced from their homes – “We have lost nearly all our family members. This is the darkest moment for us.”

NAIROBI, 1 May 2024 (Reuters) – Floods and landslides across Kenya have killed 181 people since March, with hundreds of thousands forced to leave their homes, the government and Red Cross said on Wednesday, as dozens more were killed in neighbouring Tanzania and Burundi. Torrential rain and floods have destroyed homes, roads, bridges, and other […]

An aerial view of a landslide area in Ask, Gjerdrum municipality, Norway, taken on 1 January 2020. Rescuers found one body on Friday, two days after a landslide in southern Norway swept away at least nine buildings, police said, with nine people still missing. Photo: Jaran Wasrud / NTB / The Norwegian Water Resources and Energy Directorate / REUTERS

January 1, 2021

Norway’s largest landslide in recent history buries homes and leaves nine people unaccounted for

By Gwladys Fouche 1 January 2021 OSLO (Reuters) – Rescuers found one body on Friday, two days after a landslide in southern Norway swept away at least nine buildings, police said, with nine people still missing. Another 10 people were injured after Wednesday’s landslide in the residential area in the Gjerdrum municipality, about 30 km […]