* Newstin.co.uk is for sale! * After achieving our strategic milestone, we are offering for sale: Newstin.co.uk and all 14 related domains featuring 1 million unique visitors per month + continuously updated news database of 37 million articles in 12 world languages from 166,000 global and weighted sources + 2.1 billion metadata * To seize this unique chance, contact invest@newstin.com. * Newstin.co.uk is for sale! *

Landslide & Avalanche

Gabion wall for landslide-prone stretch

thestar.com.my
21 hrs ago
        

THE Public Works Department (JKR) is building a retaining wall at the 4.9th kilometre of Jalan Tun Sardon in Penang to prevent a recurrence of landslides there during heavy rain. Penang Public Works, Utilities and...

add comment
                   

HuffPo Blogger: Landslide Needed to Defeat 'Unheroic Killer' McCain

newsbusters.org
yesterday 1 related
        

Mirror, mirror, on the wall; who's the kookiest HuffPo blogger of them all? Until today, I would have declared former Al Gore fashion consultant, Naomi Wolf, the hands down winner in the flat out nuts department over at the...

add comment
                   
bbc.co.uk: Landslide in central Scotland bbc.co.uk

Landslide threat to trunk roads

bbc.co.uk
yesterday
        

The landslide at Lochearnhead saw 57 people airlifted to safety One fifth of Scotland's main road network is at risk of landslides, according to a report. Transport Scotland has identified 67 high-risk sites, with the A82...

add comment
                   

China investigates landslide that buried village

iht.com
yesterday 13 related
        

Chinese authorities launched an investigation Monday into an industrial landslide that buried a village in northern China, amid claims that officials initially downplayed the scale of the tragedy, a state news agency reported.

add comment
                   

RWANDA: Rains wreak havoc

irinnews.org
yesterday 4 related
        

Rwanda’s hilly western and northern regions are prone to landslides and flooding KIGALI, 6 October 2008 (IRIN) - Torrential rains have caused extensive flooding, destroying homes and crops in Rwanda's western and northern...

add comment
                   

Courts at risk of being swamped with cases

ft.com
06-Oct-2008
        

By Michael Peel and Megan Murphy An avalanche of credit crunch lawsuits could overwhelm the court system as funding pressures threaten to dent its reputation as a top centre for global business disputes, the government's former...

add comment
                   

Residents Remain On Shaky Ground One Year After Slide

nbcsandiego.com
03-Oct-2008
        

La Jolla Rocked By Slide One Year Ago Mari Payton, NBC 7/39 Reporter POSTED: 7:46 am PDT October 3, 2008 UPDATED: 8:05 am PDT October 3, 2008 LA JOLLA, Calif. -- Attorneys representing slide victims and more than 100 plaintiffs...

add comment
                   

World Bank to grant $35 mn aid to Nepal`s flood victims!

zeenews.com
02-Oct-2008 5 related
        

Kathmandu, Oct 02: World Bank will grant NRs 2.6 billion (USD 35 million) assistance to the six million people affected by floods and landslides in Nepal. According to the Bank, the amount would be spent in getting relief in...

add comment

Landslide along Yangtze River bank in China's Anhui sinks 48 houses

xinhuanet.com
02-Oct-2008 2 related
        

HEFEI, Oct. 2 (Xinhua) -- More than 40 houses were submerged after a landslide on the banks of the Yangtze River's Heishazhou section in the eastern province of Anhui, local authorities said on Thursday, but no casualties were...

add comment
                   

No rain drop blames itself for the flood

prometheus6.org
02-Oct-2008 1 related
        

Think of a mountainside full of snow. A snowflake falls, an avalanche begins and a village is buried. What caused the catastrophe? The value-at-risk crowd focuses on each snowflake and resulting cause and effect. The complexity...

add comment
1 2 3 4 5 next »