Natural disasters, including cyclones and devastating floods, triggered internal displacement of 12.5 million people in South Asia in 2022 and Bangladesh, India and Pakistan were the most affected by floods, says a report by Geneva-based Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre (IDMC).
The popular social media platform Twitter is reportedly being used to map monsoon floods in India's Mumbai. In this brand new initiative by the Climate Studies department of Indian Institute of Technology, keywords used in tweets by the local community will be used to map heavily-flooded areas.