Heavy rains caused widespread flooding in Tangerang City, Banten, on Java island, affecting residential areas, including ...

Disaster Map Foundation (Yayasan Peta Bencana), an Indonesian nonprofit, has just won First Place at the 2025 SAFE STEPS D-Tech Awards for its work building a real-time disaster response platform ...

Jakarta revives weather modification effort to mitigate flood risk The Jakarta administration has revived its OMC in a bid to combat heavy and extreme rainfall and prevent flooding, after it found ...

Acting Governor of Jakarta Teguh Setyabudi inspects several flood-prone areas in the region as the rainy season is approaching.

New Yorkers are spending billions on houses in flood-prone areas despite growing awareness of the effects of climate change.

Risk analyses and flood maps are ways of ‘seeing’ landscapes through some of their specific geographical characteristics, and – strengthened by the work of insurers – private property. However, they ...

Archive photo—The Ministry of Environment and Forestry's Manggala Agni Team helps tackle flooding in North Penajam Paser, East Kalimantan, on June 26, 2024. (ANTARA/HO-BNPB/rst) Jakarta (ANTARA) - The ...

Clearing of forests for oil palm plantations can increase flooding risk and water contamination for downstream communities, a new study shows. The research focused on the Kais River watershed in ...

Japan plans to start providing flood risk maps for Vietnam, Indonesia, Thailand and Cambodia next fiscal year to help the South-East Asian countries reduce damage from flooding.