By Clare Nuttall in Glasgow Torrential rains in the Congolese capital Kinshasa in early April brought devastating floods that ...

The new system aims to prevent overlapping ownership claims and introduce a more accountable land registry. Every parcel of ...

Data: Ohenhen, et al., 2025, "Land subsidence risk to infrastructure in US metropolises"; Map: Erin Davis/Axios Visuals San Francisco is sinking, and new research shows it's more widespread — and ...

Rescuers on Monday discovered five more bodies of victims of flash floods and landslides in Indonesia's West Papua province, ...

South Jakarta. Lukmansyah ensured his side would immediately map out flood mitigation steps to prevent similar disasters from recurring or at least reduce the impacts caused. Based on the temporary ...

File: A man wades through the water during a tidal flood at the Muara Angke Port in Jakarta, Indonesia, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2021. Rising sea levels and rapid land subsidence due to over-extraction of ...

Clearing of forests for oil palm plantations can increase flooding risk and water contamination ... See All Key Ideas JAKARTA — Briantama Asmara first visited the village of Kais in Indonesian ...

Flood risk Researchers at NASA and partner agencies used data in 2020 to produce this map to identify areas of Jakarta under threat of being flooded. 'Nusantara' roughly translates to 'the outer ...