Tokyo has revised its flood prevention guidelines for underground spaces in the city to incorporate the use of artificial intelligence following the emergence of abnormal weather conditions in recent years. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/29/japan/society/tokyo-underground-guidelines/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #society #tokyometropolitangovernment #floods #typhoons
Hundreds of thousands of people in southern China were left cleaning up after Typhoon Ragasa crashed through Guangdong Province, ripping down trees, destroying fences and blasting signs off buildings. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/26/asia-pacific/typhoon-ragasa-clean-up/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #china #taiwan #hongkong #typhoons #floods
Massive floods in Pakistan have struck both the rural heartland and industrial centers for the first time in decades, causing billions of dollars in damage while straining food supplies, exports and the economy. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/23/asia-pacific/pakistan-floods-fiscal-plans/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #floods #pakistan
The population outflow in Ishikawa Prefecture's Okunoto region continues after an earthquake and torrential rains in 2024, with the population of those 39 or younger shrinking at twice the speed of those 40 and older. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/22/japan/japan-disaster-hit-noto-region-population-fall/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #notopeninsula #ishikawa #ishikawaearthquake #earthquakes #floods
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“More than two million people have been evacuated in Pakistan's Punjab province as floods sweep the country's eastern region..
The floods have also wreaked havoc in neighbouring India, killing at least 30 people and affecting more than 354,000…
Amid the latest wave of floods, Pakistani authorities this week declared a climate emergency.“
“More than two million people have been evacuated in Pakistan's Punjab province as floods sweep the country's eastern region..
The floods have also wreaked havoc in neighbouring India, killing at least 30 people and affecting more than 354,000…
Amid the latest wave of floods, Pakistani authorities this week declared a climate emergency.“
Heavy rain and widespread flooding in basmati rice-growing regions of India and Pakistan have raised concerns over output of the premium staple, driving prices higher on an expected fall in supply. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/09/markets/flood-india-pakistan-basmati-prices/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #markets #rice #floods #india #pakistan
Pakistan still struggles with disaster preparedness, exposing the reality for less-developed countries that contribute minimally to climate change but bear the brunt of its impacts as pledged funding fails to appear. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/09/04/climate-finance-aid-billions-pakistan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #business #floods #climatechange #pakistan
Waiting for floodwaters to recede, women in Chung, Pakistan, have limited access to sanitary pads and essential medicines, including pregnancy-related care. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/09/01/asia-pacific/society/floods-women-pakistan-camps/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #pakistan #southasia #floods #women039sissues
Houses lie submerged in water from the Lonza River after the May landslide. Scientists say melting permafrost and glacial instability likely contributed to the severity of the landslide, Blatten, #Switzerland
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A girl sits on the rubble of her damaged home after flash floods. Heavy monsoon rains have continued to pummel the Indian subcontinent, bringing devastating flooding and landslides and killing hundreds of people in one of the deadliest monsoon seasons in recent years, Pir Baba, #Pakistan
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A girl sits on the rubble of her damaged home after flash floods. Heavy monsoon rains have continued to pummel the Indian subcontinent, bringing devastating flooding and landslides and killing hundreds of people in one of the deadliest monsoon seasons in recent years, Pir Baba, #Pakistan
Photograph: Muhammad Sajjad/AP
Beijing has experienced three deluges since 2012 that forecasters said could only happen once every 100 years, and climate experts warn there is a growing risk of disasters on a previously unthinkable scale. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/environment/2025/08/21/climate-change/arid-beijing-wetter-future/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #environment #climatechange #china #climatechange #floods
Pakistan ordered businesses, schools and public offices in Karachi to shut on Wednesday after torrential monsoon rain left at least 10 people dead in the densely populated port city. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/21/asia-pacific/pakistan-karachi-rain-flooding/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #pakistan #karachi #floods
In just minutes, a torrent of water and rocks swept down on a remote Pakistani village on Monday, destroying at least 15 houses, damaging several others and killing nine people. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/19/asia-pacific/survivors-pakistan-cloudburst-flood/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #pakistan #floods
Two days of intense monsoon rains have killed over 330 people across the mountainous north of Pakistan, with water, rocks and trees swept down mountainsides and burying homes. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/18/asia-pacific/flash-floods-buner-pakistan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #pakistan #floods
Landslides and flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across northern Pakistan have killed at least 199 people in the past 24 hours, national and local officials said Friday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/16/asia-pacific/monsoon-rains-pakistan/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #floods #rain #pakistan
The Japan Meteorological Agency issued a heavy rain emergency warning for the city of Tamana and the town of Nagasu in Kumamoto Prefecture at 12:20 a.m. on Monday. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/11/japan/rain-emergency-kumamoto-kyushu/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kumamoto #floods #kyushu
The Meteorological Agency warned of landslides, river flooding and inundation in low-lying areas of Fukuoka Prefecture on Sunday as heavy rain continued in the Kyushu region. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/10/japan/japan-heavy-rain-kyushu/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kyushu #fukuoka #floods #landslides
"The main point, says the editorial, is that natural disasters “are a result of living in a fallen and sinful world,” and that humans and the natural world itself are both cursed by original sin, so you’d better focus on getting right with Jesus. Also that extreme weather, like the rain, fall on both 'the just and the unjust,' and God’s will is inscrutable (and of course human activity like burning fossil fuels can’t affect the atmosphere)."
"But most importantly, natural disasters are a reminder to 'repent or perish,' because see point #1 about living in a fallen world."