Landslides

A climate scientist has said that while the area of Southern California is desperate for rain, this storm might bring too much too quickly.

Los Angeles locals are being warned of flash flooding and landslides as an incoming "atmospheric river" threatens areas hit by last month's devastating wildfires.

The state government announces an independent inquiry into the cause of a landslide south east of Melbourne, as residents of more than a dozen homes remain unable to return to their Mornington Peninsula properties.

Rescuers are continuing to search for those missing in the disaster.

After a $2 million property lay in a splintered heap near the foot of a Mornington Peninsula hill on Tuesday, questions have been raised about the long-term viability of home lending and insurance for hilltop neighbourhoods. 

Residents yet to return home two years after a landslide on the Mornington Peninsula say their concerns have been ignored. It comes after another landslide destroyed a home and damaged two other properties on Tuesday. 

A McCrae resident evacuated on Tuesday after his house was impacted by a landslide has called for the issue to be fixed, as works continue to make the site safe for people to return.

Residents in the Mornington Peninsula neighbourhood where a home was destroyed in a landslide have questioned whether more could have been done to prevent it.

Homes are being evacuated on Victoria's Mornington Peninsula after a landslide brought down a house. One person has been taken to hospital in a stable condition.

Torrential rain in the province since last week had caused flash floods and landslides in four different districts of Sumatra.

Forecasters warn Trami could make a U-turn next week as it is pushed back by high-pressure winds in the South China Sea.

Deadly rain-related floods and landslides are common across South Asia during the monsoon season from June to September. But experts say climate change is increasing their frequency and severity.

The Nepalese government says all divisions of security forces in the country, including the army, have been ordered to help in the rescue efforts.

More than 200 people have been killed in floods and landslides sparked by the storm across Myanmar, with some 240,000 others displaced by the disaster.

Hundreds of villagers in Myanmar saw severe floods around the remote capital of Naypyidaw on Friday while Vietnam began clearing up after the deadly Typhoon Yagi ripped through the country.

A strange signal that shook the planet in September last year has been traced back to a tsunami from a melting glacier in the Arctic. And it may happen again.

Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni asks why people are allowed to live in close proximity to an unstable heap of garbage, as rescuers continue to retrieve bodies.

A large chunk of garbage broke off the landfill on Friday evening, authorities said, crushing and burying homes on the edge of the site as residents slept.

For more than two months, the only way to get food, medicine and other supplies into Porgera has been to carry them by foot over a huge cascade of rocks left by a landslide. 

After intense rainfall in Kerala's hilly district, torrents of mud and rocks swept people to their deaths as they slept. Sahir Edathodi lost 25 family members in the disaster.