First responders in Alaska have conducted dozens of rescues after the remnants of Typhoon Halong battered the region, washing away several homes.

The remnants of Typhoon Halong tracked farther east than expected, slamming into the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta coast early Sunday morning. Officials said Sunday afternoon that the hardest-hit communities appeared to be Kipnuk, Kwigillingok and Napakiak.

Everything is 100 times more complicated when it comes to building — and rebuilding — in remote Alaska communities.

Amid increasingly extreme rainfall and flooding, hydrologist, Dr. Luong Huu Dung says northern Vietnam needs to move from flood resistance to adaptation, learning to live with flooding.

The breaching of a barrier lake – formed after landslides triggered by another typhoon blocked rivers in a remote mountain valley in July – is the main cause of extensive damage in the eastern county of Hualien, said Huang Chao Chin, the deputy commander of Taiwan's Central Emergency Operation Centre.

Lingering heavy rains from a former typhoon caused more flooding and landslides in Vietnam, raising the death toll to at least 26, with more missing.

Hanoi: More than 3,000 houses remain underwater in northern provinces following severe flooding brought by Typhoon Matmo.

Two Alaskan villages were destroyed by remnants of a powerful typhoon that swept homes off their foundations, killed at least one person, and displaced more than 1,400 people. Typhoon Halong barreled through western Alaska over the weekend,