Still reeling from the devastating effects of the magnitude 7.0 earthquake last month, hundreds of residents in Northern Luzon evacuated anew due to flooding and landslides caused by Severe Tropical Storm “Florita,” the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council (NDRRMC) said...
CEBU CITY – Several residents appealed to authorities not to demolish their dwellings until they are given necessary assistance as this city started a massive clearing operation in waterways in the aftermath of recent floods. CEBU City Hall workers demolish structures that stood within the...
SEOUL, South Korea -- South Korea's capital has moved to ban the cramped basement flats made famous by Oscar-winning movie "Parasite" after four people drowned in subterranean dwellings during flooding caused by record-breaking rains this week. South Korean soldiers clear debris from a residential...
SEOUL, South Korea -- The death toll from South Korea's record-breaking rains and flooding has risen to 11, officials said Thursday, with eight more people still missing as Seoul struggles to clean up after the deluge. Partially submerged roadsigns are seen as waters from the flooded Han River...
SEOUL, South Korea -- At least nine people were killed and seven others missing in South Korea after record downpours flooded major roads, metro stations and homes, officials said Wednesday. People walk across a street during heavy rainfall in the Gangbuk district of Seoul on August 8, 2022. YONHAP...
LOS ANGELES, United States -- Major flooding in California's Death Valley on Friday stranded approximately 1,000 people, buried cars and shut down all roads into and out of the famously parched national park. This handout image courtesy of Death Valley National Park Service shows monsoonal rain...
Around 100 families from different barangays affected by flood in Quezon City on Saturday evening, July 16, were rescued by members of the city’s disaster response team. Members of the Quezon City Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) and the Department of Public Order and Safety...
PEOPLE gather around a pickup truck that collided with a ten-wheel truck in Cordon, Isabela, Saturday, July 9. CORDON, Isabela – An architect was killed while three others were injured in a collision between a pickup truck and a 10-wheel truck Saturday, July 9, in Barangay Caquilingan here....
"Ang secret ng resiliency ng Marikina is the partnership between the government and the citizens of Marikina,” said Dave C. David, the chief of the city’s Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office (DRRMO) in a conference for multiple climate stakeholders on Saturday, June 25. Mr. Dave C....
To address the issue of flooding in Marikina City, Mayor Marcelino "Marcy" Teodoro said on Monday, May 23, that the local government is willing to cooperate with neighboring cities to form agreements on land-use and calamity response. In an interview with DZRH, Teodoro said that talks between and...
SYDNEY, Australia -- The Australian coastal enclave of Byron Bay, known for its celebrity residents and idyllic beaches, was inundated by floodwaters Wednesday as severe storms again battered the country's east. Torrential rain that began Monday proved unrelenting, with nearly 300 millimetres (11.8...
The Department of Public Works and Highways (DPWH) announced on Tuesday, March 29, the completion of the Sacol Riverbank slope protection project in Buenavista, Agusan del Norte, which it said, will serve as locals’ protection from strong river currents, especially during typhoons and heavy...
