Environmental soil science

Heavy monsoon rains have killed at least 46 people in southeast Bangladesh, most of them buried under landslides, authorities said on June 13.

Police warned that the death toll would likely rise as emergency workers reached remote parts of the affected area, where telephone and transport links had been cut.

Disasters will become more frequent and dangerous because of climate change, but also because governments in Turkey are continuing practices that increase risks, according to a local expert in the field. ?Disasters are man-made. Populist rhetoric is distancing us from solutions,?

Indeed, the country has huge problems. Terror has revived; we get news of deaths every day.

Monsoons have resulted in the deaths of hundreds of people across Asia as rescue workers tried to access remote areas in India, Myanmar and Pakistan in the wake of floods and landslides. Indian authorities estimate 120 people have been killed in recent days, while more than a million have been displaced as heavy rains made the situation even worse.

The global increase in non-arable land poses a considerable threat and Turkey is also affected by the problem, Forestry and Waterworks Minister Veysel Ero?lu warned on July 13. 

Two workers were injured when they were trapped by a landslide which struck a ski-jumping complex in the eastern province of Erzurum on July 6, during the reconstruction of the complex about a year after a collapse in the same area. 

Two construction workers died while two others were wounded after being trapped under debris in a landslide on May 22 at a dam construction site in northwest Turkey.

Remediation of landslides to cost EUR 11 billion

BELGRADE -- About 30 percent of Serbia's territory - some 40,000 locations - is affected by some type of landslides or rockfalls, a symposium on landslides has heard.

Remediation of all those sites would cost around EUR 11 billion, it was said during the gathering in Belgrade on Thursday, Tanjug reported.

The road between Asenovgrad and Smolyan still remains closed both ways due to the new landslide in the region. It is expected that the road will be unblocked by the end of the day.

In order for the rocks after the landslide can be cleared faster, excavators will be working on both sides of the road.

CACAK - A total of 36,000 landslide sites have been registered in Serbia, Minister for Emergency Situations Velimir Ilic has said in Cacak, expressing concern that new ones may appear once the snow melts.