On Thursday, an emergency meeting was held and it was decided the flood rescue and relief operations would be scaled up in Kerala. Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan sought additional Army personnel ...

The flooding began in late July, but it isn’t until August 8 when a punishing monsoon rain hit that it became a disaster of this nature. Kerala received 12 inches of rain in 24 hours ...

In fact, just months before the deadly landslides, the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) Delhi's landslide susceptibility map had ... Kerala is frequently subjected to flooding & landslides ...

In a first-of-its-kind initiative in the State, experts have drawn up a flood map of rain-ravaged Andimadom, the eighth ward of Akathethara grama panchayat here, marking areas prone to varying ...

As the state becomes increasingly vulnerable to floods, the Kerala State Disaster Management ... the development of flood risk maps, and floodplain zonation, and providing crucial inputs for ...

The monsoon flooding has severely hit 12 of Kerala's 14 districts, with thousands of homes damaged since June. Crops on 32,500 hectares (80,300 acres) of land have also been damaged, the Home ...

Kerala faced intense rain twice before in this season, followed by extended dry spells, as these more detailed maps show. The scale on the map cannot adequately represent the departures from ...

The College of Climate Change and Environmental Science, Kerala Agricultural University, has prepared flood vulnerability maps for different agro-ecological zones in the State. Flood Vulnerability ...

Half a decade on after the 2018 Kerala floods ... primary projects under the RKI is that we have published flood susceptibility maps. Whether it is policy or legal interventions, they are now ...