The deadly landslides in Kerala's Wayanad, triggered by torrential rains, have killed over 130 people and trapped thousands under the mud. Military personnel on Wednesday intensified search and ...

At least 98 people have been killed and more than 100 are feared trapped under debris after landslides hit hilly areas in India's southern Kerala state on Tuesday, government officials told The ...

Between August 1 and August 30, 2018, Kerala received 821 mm of rainfall as against a normal of 419.3 mm, a departure classified by the India Meteorological Department (IMD) as “large excess”.

Flood victims are evacuated to safer areas in Kozhikode, in the southern Indian state of Kerala, Thursday, Aug. 16, 2018. Source: AAP ...

The state witnessed extreme rainfall in 2018 which triggered the worst flood in the country in a century. There was an unusually high amount of rainfall that killed around 483 people and displaced ...

Pointing to the lack of a large-scale flood hazard map in the state, the agency said that Kerala's Disaster Management Plan includes a flood susceptibility map that does not conform to the Central ...

In 2017 Kerala was hit by the cyclonic storm "Ockhi" and catastrophic flood and landslide episodes followed during 2018, 2019 and 2020, he has claimed.

But no one was expecting the kind of rainfall and flood that Kerala received in the August of 2018. Hundreds of lives were lost, houses and properties damaged.

Study finds an increase in the rate of soil erosion post the extreme floods in August 2018. | IIT Bombay, Soil erosion, Flood, 2018, Kerala | Latest science and technology news, research breakthroughs ...