Overall Green alert Flood for India
in India

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Flood India can have a low humanitarian impact based on the magnitude, exposed population and vulnerability.

GDACS ID FL 1101086
Death: 18
Displaced: 30875
Countries: India
From - To 11 Sep - 14 Sep

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Delhi, India, September 2021Streets of Delhi were flooded along with Indira Gandhi International (IGI) Airport due to heavy rain 11 September 2021. 5 flights were diverted. According to India Meteorological Department (IMD), Delhi received 97mm rain in 24 hours to 11 September.Sun 12 Sep 2021FloodList provided by Copernicus GLOFAS
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Latest media headlines

Articles: 25 | About casualties: 1 | Last hour: 0

Climate change isn't the only factor in recent disasters — governance ... 2021-09-16T00:09+0200.

Close your eyes and drop your finger on a world map — nearly any place you land has faced a climate catastrophe this summer. No region has been spared the devastation of record-breaking extreme weather events. The security impacts have been
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Rain, floods killed 6,800 people in India in last 3 yrs; Bengal tops l ... 2021-09-14T05:59+0200.

India has lost 6,811 people in the last three years to hydro-meteorological disasters such as heavy rain, lightning, flood and cyclones till March this year, according to government information to Parliament. West Bengal topped the list of
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SDSs, drying wetlands increasing alarmingly2021-09-13T15:09+0200.

The occurrence of drought and lack of water rights for wetlands are the most important causes of land degradation and desertification, which are caused by climate change and human involvement, ILNA quoted Vahid Jafarian as saying on Monday.
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These 5 resilient cities can teach us how to survive the climate crisi ... 2021-09-09T20:19+0200.

n, the lead author on a 2019 study about Fukuoka’s green spaces and a researcher at Open University, tells Inverse. In the face of climate change, the city has put in place proactive measures to make their city greener — literally. How is F
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For this events, GDACS has links to information from the following sources: EC-JRC (36), (2), NASA (7), DesInventar (4), WMO (1), INFORM (2),