A year's worth of precipitation fell in a little over an hour. The rain raced down steep, rocky slopes, collecting in streams and gullies, until it crashed into an angry, rapidly rising river. It was ...

New Orleans modeled its flood defenses on Dutch expertise. Now, through a global network of barrier engineers, the Dutch are ...

At least 52 people have been killed in Nepal due to landslides and floods triggered by heavy rainfall that started late last week along the Chure Hills and Madhes province before it moved to the ...

Press release from the American Flood Coalition: Last week, a delegation of local leaders from Western North Carolina traveled to Kerr County, Texas, to exchange flood recovery lessons in the wake of ...

The floods that affected Western Maryland in May upended people’s lives and left many of our neighbors struggling to recover. The damage was substantial, and the recovery is ongoing. There are lessons ...

It was in 2005 that the most debilitating floods took place in Mumbai in 2005 on July 26, resulting in a loss of over a thousand lives. Yet two decades down the line, what has changed? Not the floods; ...

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The recent Guadalupe floods in Texas brought back horrible memories of the June 1972 Rapid City, South Dakota, flood, which took the lives of 238 people. I am incensed that news organizations did not ...

Years ago I covered local news in a rural stretch of Florida’s Gulf coast, and the county administrator there — an engineer by trade, well regarded in the community — told me the final thing he would ...

Every rainy season, residents of Accra brace themselves for a familiar and painful reality: flooded homes, destroyed ...