#floods

In the hours before her six-year-old son died in her lap, Badar Bibi recalled how she rushed from a field clinic set up to treat people caught in Pakistan’s ...

By Gloria Dickie and David Stanway While Pakistanis count the cost of one of the country’s worst recorded floods, heavy rain is hitting southwestern China as the Texas city ...

Many parts of India’s tech hub of Bengaluru were under water for a second day on Tuesday as more rain fell in an unusually wet monsoon season, bringing traffic ...

By Gloria Dickie Worsening droughts, storms and torrential rain in some of the world’s largest economies could cause $5.6 trillion in losses to the global economy by 2050, according to a ...

Pakistan needs financial help to deal with “overwhelming” floods, its foreign minister said, adding that he hoped financial institutions such as the International Monetary Fund would take the economic fallout ...

Monsoon rains caused widespread flooding in northeastern Bangladesh and India, stranding nearly 6 million people and killing at least 19 people in Bangladesh, authorities said on Saturday, warning the situation could worsen. ...

By Kim Harrisberg As downpours swamped South Africa’s third-largest city last week, residents lucky enough to still have internet access and power shared harrowing videos of highways turned into ...

Rains that have killed around 400 people and left thousands homeless in South Africa this week began pounding the east coast again on Saturday, threatening more flooding and forcing many to ...

South Africans were searching for survivors on Friday of floods that killed almost 400 people, according to the latest tally, washing away homes and roads and leaving thousands without shelter, water ...

Floods that have devastated Australia‘s east coast will be declared a national emergency, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, as authorities look to deploy aid and urgent supplies ...

The goal is not just to manage the effects of climate change, but to create the right conditions to prevent them and make society more resilient against them, Interior Minister ...

Larnaca district administration crews began recording the flood damage incurred by the Lympia community during Saturday’s heavy rainfalls. Officials from the public works department were also present in the ...

By Mehmet Emin Caliskan and Bulent Usta Families of those missing after Turkey’s worst floods in years anxiously watched rescue teams search buildings on Saturday, fearing the death toll ...

Emergency workers battled to relieve flood-hit areas of Turkey’s Black Sea region on Friday, as the death toll rose to 27 in the second natural disaster to strike the country ...

German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer rejected criticism the government had failed to sufficiently warn people of last week’s floods, as the death toll from the country’s worst natural ...

By Petra Wischgoll and David Sahl The death toll in devastating flooding in western Germany and Belgium rose to at least 168 on Saturday after burst rivers and flash floods this ...

Floods and landslides triggered by tropical cyclone Seroja in a cluster of islands in southeast Indonesia and East Timor have killed 97 people, with many still unaccounted for and thousands displaced, ...

Southwestern France was hit by heavy flooding on Monday following days of torrential rain, and several other regions including eastern Paris were on flood alert ahead of a cold snap ...