Coastal Tides

The gentle roar of the ocean lulled Indian mother-of-two Banita Behra to sleep each night, until one day the encroaching tide reached her doorstep.

A video taken in the coastal town of Ilfracombe, Devon, shows a girl being forcefully knocked down by a massive wave during the high tide.

Cyclone Titli that hit the coast in southern Odisha early this morning uprooted trees and electric poles. Eight people have died in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. 'Titli' which intensified into a "very severe cyclonic storm" over the Bay of Bengal also brought with heavy rain and strong winds. Over three lakh people in Odisha's five coastal districts...

The unprecedented high tides due to cyclone Ockhi that flooded hundreds of beach shacks in Goa has given rise to a demand from the tourism industry for a re-think by the state authorities on the places for allocation of the beach shacks along the coast.

Many US coastal communities already struggle with flooding at high tides, a problem that will become "chronic" in the coming 15 years due to global warming, scientists said on Wednesday.

Fear gripped coastal Andhra as high tidal waves lashed the coast under the impact of cyclonic storm 'Thane' which is set to cross the coast between Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh Dec 30. According to the India Meteorological Department , the cyclonic storm over southwest and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal remained practica...

Defenses shielding the center of Thailand's capital from the nation's worst floods in nearly 60 years mostly held at critical peak tides on Saturday, as the waters began to recede after killing almost 400 people. But the threat to central Bangkok was not over, the prime minister said, and the city's northern districts remained submerged along with ...

There were heavy rains, as coastal Andhra Pradesh waited hours for Cyclone Laila. Thursday evening when landfall happened at Bapatla, Laila was thankfully a little more mellowed than what was feared. With wind speed at over 100 km per hour, high tide and fear of flash floods, the administration wanted to take no chances.

The gentle roar of the ocean lulled Indian mother-of-two Banita Behra to sleep each night, until one day the encroaching tide reached her doorstep.

A video taken in the coastal town of Ilfracombe, Devon, shows a girl being forcefully knocked down by a massive wave during the high tide.

Cyclone Titli that hit the coast in southern Odisha early this morning uprooted trees and electric poles. Eight people have died in neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. 'Titli' which intensified into a "very severe cyclonic storm" over the Bay of Bengal also brought with heavy rain and strong winds. Over three lakh people in Odisha's five coastal districts...

The unprecedented high tides due to cyclone Ockhi that flooded hundreds of beach shacks in Goa has given rise to a demand from the tourism industry for a re-think by the state authorities on the places for allocation of the beach shacks along the coast.

Many US coastal communities already struggle with flooding at high tides, a problem that will become "chronic" in the coming 15 years due to global warming, scientists said on Wednesday.

Fear gripped coastal Andhra as high tidal waves lashed the coast under the impact of cyclonic storm 'Thane' which is set to cross the coast between Cuddalore in Tamil Nadu and Nellore in Andhra Pradesh Dec 30. According to the India Meteorological Department , the cyclonic storm over southwest and adjoining southeast Bay of Bengal remained practica...

Defenses shielding the center of Thailand's capital from the nation's worst floods in nearly 60 years mostly held at critical peak tides on Saturday, as the waters began to recede after killing almost 400 people. But the threat to central Bangkok was not over, the prime minister said, and the city's northern districts remained submerged along with ...

There were heavy rains, as coastal Andhra Pradesh waited hours for Cyclone Laila. Thursday evening when landfall happened at Bapatla, Laila was thankfully a little more mellowed than what was feared. With wind speed at over 100 km per hour, high tide and fear of flash floods, the administration wanted to take no chances.