Today marks a year since the devastating floods across KwaZulu-Natal claimed the lives of over 400 people, with many people still missing.

To protect climate migrants, some legal scholars have proposed amending the definition of refugee in the Refugee Convention of 1951.

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Mineworkers who worked the night shift before the Jagersfontein dam disaster said they warned management of a crack in the wall.

The Free State Government says that 164 houses were damaged in Jagersfontein over the weekend after the mine dam wall burst.

There are 6 895 people in five districts and eThekwini Municipality that were left homeless and 461 fatalities, due to the KZN floods.

The group’s Ali Sablay said they had to respond immediately to the disaster which happened just over a week before Christmas.

Plane crashed after second attempt at landing.

Heavy rains in India’s monsoon season has brought Mumbai to a standstill. Several people, including young children, have lost their lives.

The post from November 2016 is a chilling foresight into tragedy

At this early stage, the estimated death toll is hovering around the 10,000 mark. Those figures would rank Haiyan amongst the deadliest single weather events of its kind of the 21st century