"To ensure food security ... it is essential to develop more flood- and drought-tolerant crop varieties." Floods devastate ...

When Hurricane Helene hit Valle Crucis in North Carolina, the creek across the Watauga River was already overflowing from 11 ...

Related stories The same researchers found that the rate of dryland flash flooding around the world was 20 times higher ...

Mixed messages and confusion cost lives, dozens of local residents and experts say. More than 220 people died and nearly 80 ...

A year’s worth of rain fell in just eight hours around Valencia, Spain’s third most populous city, fueling the worst natural ...

Preliminary research shows human-caused climate change doubled the likelihood of a storm as intense as this week's deluge.

Since the pre-industrial era, global air temperatures have increased by around 1.3 degrees ... us that the risk of extreme flooding will continue to rise if the world fails to limit global warming.

Around the world, unruly rivers have long driven a hard ... China has had a particularly long and terrible history of flooding. In the last 2000 years, the Yangtze River has flooded more than ...

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In Spain there’s a lot of sadness and anger after flash flooding killed more than 200 people last week. Many locals say they weren’t given enough warning and haven’t had enough support in the ...

Spanish banks have a loan exposure of about 20 billion euros ($21.80 billion) in areas worst-hit by floods, but will be able to absorb the shock, a Bank of Spain official said on Tuesday, adding ...

And heatwaves fuelled by climate change can worsen dry conditions when they do occur, by increasing evaporation from the soil ...