The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Former Queensland officers say colleagues have gotten away with slurs

The estimate exceeds $6bn paid out by insurers for Australia’s costliest disaster, the 2022 NSW and Queensland floods

Country has experienced 23 extreme weather events costing $1bn or more already this year, passing previous mark of 22 in 2020

The UK has already sweltered through five days of temperatures above 30C in September for the first time, with Saturday making it six-in-a-row.

The death toll from severe flooding in central Greece rose to 10 people Friday, while another four remained missing, the country's civil protection minister said. Rescue crews in helicopters and boats ferried hundreds of people from inundated villages to safety.

Recent images of the devastating flash floods caused by Storm Daniel in Greece hit close to home literally and figuratively. As a Greek who has completed a PhD and worked for the past eight years on flash floods, the scenes unfolding across my homeland are painfully real: a stark reminder…

Hong Kong has closed schools and halted trading on the stock exchange as torrential rain lashed the city overnight, flooding streets in parts of the city and an underground subway station

Burners were forced to endure hours of torrential rains before tens of thousands bailed on the festival. Scientists warn that such large bursts of showers are a result of a warming planet.

Severe rainstorms turned streets into raging torrents, hurling cars into the sea and washing away roads