Tag: Floods
PNG begins wild weather relief operations – 21 killed in mud...
PNG Post-Courier
Prime Minister James Marape has announced comprehensive relief operations in Papua New Guinea's devastating weather that has killed at least 21 people and...
Bougainville leaders call on mining giant Rio Tinto to assist communities
RNZ Pacific
Community leaders around Panguna mine in the autonomous Papua New Guinea region of Bougainville want mining giant Rio Tinto to help out following...
IPCC report: world must cut emissions and urgently adapt to climate realities
ANALYSIS: By Bronwyn Hayward, University of Canterbury
This decade is the critical moment for making deep, rapid cuts to emissions, and acting to protect people...
Two die in heavy floods in West Papuan city Sorong
RNZ News
Floods have struck the West Papuan city of Sorong following heavy rains early this week.
There are reports of 1.5 metre-high flooding and landslides...
Ardern, Robertson talk Kiwibank, Sharma and NZ flooding
RNZ News
New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern and Minister of Finance Grant Robertson used today's post-cabinet briefing to discuss the shifting ownership of the...
Severe floods hit Timor-Leste capital Dili in Easter disaster
Asia Pacific Report newsdesk
Much of the Timor-Leste capital of Dili has been heavily flooded with rivers bursting their banks after three days of heavy...
Death toll from Papuan floods, mudslides rises to 89
Homes and bridges destroyed in Papua province by landslides triggered by torrential rainfall - the death toll is now 89. Video: Euronews
Pacific Media Centre...
Typhoon Usman and nightmarish Christmas holiday times in Bicol
Flooding of ricefields and villager homes beside the causeway between Vinzons and Labo in Camarines Norte, Bicol region, during Typhoon Usman on 29 December...
‘We’re stuck in the river – please come quickly’ cry before...
By Felix Chaudhary in Lautoka
"We're stuck in the river, please come quickly."
These were the last words spoken by a distraught daughter to her father-in-law...
‘Scary’ floodwaters engulf homes in western Fiji as 4 die over...
By Felix Chaudhary in Lautoka
"It was scary, we've never seen anything like it."
That's how a Natabua, Lautoka, man described the experience residents had as...
Cyclone Winston: Flooding closes more west Fiji roads, bridges
By Repeka Nasiko in Lautoka
More roads and bridges in the Western Division of Fiji have closed because of heavy rain experienced over the past...