The red areas on the map below show where there has been flooding in recent days. In Germany, the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia have been worst hit.

Aerial view of a house destroyed by recent flooding in Rudersberg, Germany on Tuesday. Thomas Niedermueller/Getty Images Parts of the Bavarian old town of Passau have been flooded by the Danube.

The devastating floods that killed nearly 200 people in Germany four years ago could have been even more damaging, new ...

Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands are among the countries who have faced heavy flooding in recent days. Relentless rain and storms have caused rivers and reservoirs to burst their banks ...

LUETZERATH, Germany (AP) — As Germany reels from the deadliest inland floods in living memory, one word has been on the lips of leading politicians: “klimawandel,” the German word for ...

Floods in Grimma, Germany, on 3 June 2013 The years 1990-2016 rank among the worst periods of flooding in Europe in five centuries, according to an assessment of historical letters, annals and ...

Aerial view of a house destroyed by recent flooding in Rudersberg, Germany on Tuesday. Thomas Niedermueller/Getty Images Parts of the Bavarian old town of Passau have been flooded by the Danube.

A view of a power plant in the town of Frimmersdorf, Germany, Tuesday, July 20, 2021. Last week's flood disaster has propelled the issue of climate change to the fore of an election campaign that ...

Aerial view of a house destroyed by recent flooding in Rudersberg, Germany on Tuesday. - Thomas Niedermueller/Getty Images Parts of the Bavarian old town of Passau have been flooded by the Danube.

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