More than 250,000 people need immediate food aid

A disaster overtook skaters on Regent's Park lake in London on 15 January, 1867 when the ice gave way, plunging 500 people into 12 feet of water. Bystanders tore branches off trees and launched boats drawn up on the banks as spectators turned into desp...

The 15 crew members onboard were forced to abandon ship as wild monsoon weather pounded the vessel against rocks at the island's Flying Fish Cove - the site of the asylum seeker disaster which killed about 50 people in December 2010. Start of sidebar.

Massive floods and landslides hit many parts of the Philippines in the past three weeks which killed more than 1,500 people and affected hundreds of thousands of poor villagers. Netizens are probing the causes of the disasters and the accountability of government officials in issuing permits to logging and mining ...

Thursday’s landslide that struck a mining community in Pantukan, Compostela Valley and killed dozens of people was a disaster waiting to happen, said the director of the Philippine Institute of Volcanology and Seismology.

Storms battered the Southeast Asian region in 2011 which caused heavy flooding in many countries, displaced thousands of residents and workers, destroyed millions worth of agricultural crops, and killed more than 2,000 people. Global Voices was able to report the impact of some of these flood disasters in the past ...

A massive fire in national park Torres del Paine has shocked Chilean netizens, who have expressed their concerns, anger, sadness and hope that it will soon be controlled. "Torres del Paine" and #salvemostorresdelpaine have been used to inform and comment this disaster on Twitter.

The year 2011 saw central and northern Luzon suffer from nature’s wrath when strong typhoons triggered widespread flooding that destroyed crops, public infrastructure and private property, and disrupted the lives of the regions’ 19 million residents.

Typhoon Sendong victims, their families, and friends, in the Philippines are using social media to look for missing victims, coordinate and document relief efforts, and record images and accounts of the destruction.

Dar Es Salaam’s young social media users are mobilising volunteers to assist in relief efforts following the floods that inundated vast areas of Dar es Salaam causing deaths and damage to infrastructure. Using the hashtag #Darfloods, Twitter users have been in the forefront informing and mobilising relief efforts.

A state of national calamity was declared by the Philippine President after tropical storm Sendong devastated many parts of north Mindanao Island. More than 1,000 people have already died in the flash floods and 1,000 are still missing. Here are some citizen media photos and reports of the flood impact

A giant crocodile in southern Philippines and crocodiles in the flooded waters of Thailand and Cambodia were among the top news topics in Southeast Asia in the last quarter of the year. Here are some crocodile sightings and online reports

Unlike the authorities, social media users are reacting to the empirical information about high levels of pollution in Skopje, the capital of Macedonia. Filip Stojanovski reports.

As governments gear up for COP17, which starts today, experts are warning that among climate change's greatest consequences in developing countries are the risks to the agriculture sector, including an increased risk of food insecurity. Bangladesh is among the top five most vulnerable countries.

The situation in Thailand is improving as floodwaters are receding but the death toll is now more than 600. The flood disaster is the worst in the past five decades but it also showed the creative and inventive ways of the people as they coped with the floods.

On 7 November, an oil platform operated by Chevron-Texaco and located 350km off coast from Rio de Janeiro, began spilling crude oil. Two weeks after, the spill is believed to be under control and Chevron has been fined the maximum amount allowed by Brazilian environmental authorities. But not all is ...

Many parts of Thailand are still flooded as the country continues to face the worst flooding disaster in the past half century. But some bloggers believe the flooding disaster has been exaggerated by the media. Adding to the confusion is also the wrong information flooding the social media

It's the worst flooding in a decade. The Cambodian government reports that almost a half a million hectares of rice paddies were destroyed by the floods which could affect the food security in the region. Here are more reports about the Cambodia flooding catastrophe of 2011

In an earlier post, Global Voices featured some of the online maps which were created to monitor the floods in Thailand. The flood disaster is already the worst that ever hit the country. Here are other useful online maps, twitter reports, and disaster monitoring tools that provide information about the ...

The intense rains over the state of Santa Catarina, located in Brazil’s South Region, caused, once again, floods in several cities. Since September 08, floods, flash floods and landslides have hit 96 cities in the region and nearly 1 million people have been affected.

Tropical storm Irene hit Puerto Rico on August 21st leaving wind damage, floods, constant rain, and the evacuation of entire communities. This is the same storm, now a hurricane, that is hitting the United States east coast. The online community has posted videos of the aftermath of tropical storm Irene ...

With a spreading nuclear crisis and related issues such as radiation fears, new energy policies on the horizon and an uncertain future for the operating reactors, Japanese netizens have started a revival of music videos with a clear anti-nuclear message.

Many Filipinos were taken by surprise by the heavy floods that hit the southern Philippine city of Davao the other night. Ordinary Filipinos have been using various social media to share their very own flood experience stories and remarks on the tragedy.

A typhoon hit South Korea on June 25 and 26, bringing heavy downpours and gusts and signalling the start of the rainy season. At least nine people were killed and a bridge and a levee collapsed. Moreover, a leakage was reported on a landfill where livestock was buried during the ...

The tornado that ripped through Joplin, Missouri this weekend was the deadliest on record in the past 60 years, with the death toll at 117. Rescue efforts are currently underway, as up to 30 percent of the city has been damaged and Missouri Gov. Ja...

LONDON (Reuters) – Tornadoes that swept through southern U.S. states last month could cost the insurance industry up to $6 billion, risk-modeling agency RMS said on Tuesday. The tornadoes, which struck Alabama and neighboring states in late April, w...

The Mississippi River continues to rise to heights never seen before along its course through the states of Mississippi and Louisiana. At Natchez, Mississippi, the river has already hit 59 feet, breaking the previous all-time record of 58 feet set in t...

Listen to the AudioCrews filled sandbags and shored up levees along the Mississippi River as enormous volumes of water surged south. Jeffrey Brown takes a closer look at the levee and floodgate system with the Association of State Floodplain Managers' ...

"April was a month of historic climate extremes across much of the United States, including: record breaking precipitation that resulted in historic flooding; recurrent violent weather systems that broke records for tornado and severe weather outbreaks...

A flooded power plant at Oswego, Kansas, on the Neosho River on April 23, 1927 (National Oceanic and ...