The Latest Breaking News on Floods

As many as 101 tribespeople from different hamlets in the Nilambur forest were among the 4,300 people given training in disaster response in the State as part of a nation-wide programme named Aapda Mitra (meaning friends during disasters).

A woman named Banurekha died on May 21 evening after the car she was travelling in was submerged in the flooded underpass at K. R. circle after heavy rains lashed Bengaluru

Towns and cities in Emilia Romagna were hit by heavy flooding this week and thousands of people were left with no power, while others had to throw away their belongings that were destroyed by mud

LOS ANGELES — The Kern River is swollen with so much runoff from the epic Sierra Nevada snowpack that state water officials have decided to open a rarely used relief valve, diverting floodwaters into the California Aqueduct to be used as drinking water in Southern California.

Deadly floods caused more than 305 landslides and damaged or closed more than 500 roads in the Emilia-Romagna region.

The National Green Tribunal has given no objection to the installation of a lighthouse in the greenway, adjacent to the Yamuna flood plains, for additional surveillance and security of the flood plains

At least some of the deformation under the city is “exacerbated by recent building loads”, researchers said

Italy's Emilia Romagna region will recover from the devastating floods that hit this week by taking from lessons learned from the 2012 earthquake, its governor said Friday, as the death toll from the disaster rose to 14.

The death toll from devastating floods that have hit north-eastern Italy has risen to at least 13, reports say, with that figure expected to rfurther increase.

The coastal barrier project may get $550 million from the state this year, and another half a billion could be on the table for flood-control projects. But that’s a fraction of the estimated need for flood mitigation.

Increasing urbanisation will likely aggravate the problem further, scientists say