Death toll rises to 410 in India floods – More than 1 million people flee to relief camps

CHENGANNUR, 21 August 2018 (AFP) – More than one million people have fled to relief camps in the Indian state of Kerala to escape devastating monsoon floods that have killed more than 410 people, as a huge international aid operation gathered pace.People are flocking to camps as the scale of the desolation is revealed by […]

India floods declared a “calamity of severe nature” – More than 700,000 people sheltering in 5,645 relief camps

NEW DELHI, 20 August 2018 (The Times of India) – The massive flood in Kerala has been declared a calamity of severe nature, the Union home ministry said on Monday. “Keeping in view the intensity and magnitude of the floods and landslides in Kerala, this is a calamity of a severe nature for all practical […]

India warns of “extremely grave” crisis as death toll rises to 385 in Kerala floods – Many thousands await rescue as downpour continues – More than 300,000 people sheltering in relief camps

By Michael Safi 18 August 2018 DELHI (The Guardian) – Thousands of people in the southern Indian state of Kerala are still awaiting rescue from the worst flooding in nearly 100 years, with heavy rain predicted to continue for at least the next two days.With more than 300,000 people sheltering in relief camps and thousands […]

Faith versus flood fear at Kerala’s Idukki dam as monsoon rains lash India

IDUKKI, 31 July 2018 (Gulf News) – The Idukki dam, where the water level is inching up towards the danger level, has come to symbolise the tenuous ties between faith and the fear of floods. Idukki district authorities are keeping a close watch on the rising waters in the Idukki dam, where an “orange alert” […]

Monsoon floods kill 114 people in southern India – “We’re witnessing something that has never happened before in the history of Kerala”

16 August 2018 (BBC News) – More than 100 people are thought to have died in devastating monsoon floods in India’s southern state of Kerala, the worst in almost a century. Rescuers battled torrential rains to save residents, with nearly 150,000 reportedly left homeless. The state government said many of those who died were crushed […]

Death toll rises to 67 in Kerala floods, state’s worst flooding in 94 years – 35 dams opened for first time in history – Red alerts issued in 12 districts

15 August 2018 (Livemint) – Kerala today shut the Kochi airport till Saturday as rains returned to wreak more havoc in the state. Eighteen people have been killed so far today, and thousands others are being evacuated from the fresh Kerala floods. The state has opened 35 of its dams, a first in history. Kerala […]

Flooding kills 29 in south India – Idukki reservoir over capacity, all spillways opened on Cheruthoni Dam, downriver evacuations ordered – Monsoon rains at “peak of the last 50 years”

NEW DELHI, 10 August 2018 (AFP) – Flash floods have claimed at least 27 lives in the southern Indian state of Kerala, officials said Friday, prompting the US to advise its citizens to stay away from the tourist hot-spot. The coastal state, famed for its pristine palm-lined beaches and tea plantations, is battered by the […]

“Red alert” looms as India reservoir reaches capacity – Heavy rain continues

Idukki, 8 August 2018 (Manorama) – The prospect of Idukki dam shutters at Cheruthoni being opened seemed imminent on Wednesday with the catchment area receiving over 128 mm rain in the intervening night [cf. Monsoon rains fill India reservoir to capacity – Kerala’s Idukki Dam floodgates may be opened after 26 years, forcing large-scale evacuation […]

Planet at risk of heading toward “Hothouse Earth” state – “Places on Earth will become uninhabitable”

6 August 2018 (Stockholm Resilience Centre) – An international team of scientists has published a study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) showing that even if the carbon emission reductions called for in the Paris Agreement are met, there is a risk of Earth entering what the scientists call “Hothouse Earth” conditions.A […]

Monsoon floods will only get worse in India – Flood losses estimated at $7 billion each year

By Prasoon Singh 4 August 2018 (Daily O) – It was the summer of 1995, monsoon was approaching, and like all other children, I was anxiously waiting for it. Monsoon used to be a treat for us — we celebrated rain with a rhyme, ‘Monsoon Brings the Rain’. That summer, monsoon arrived with its full […]

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