The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Mustafa al-Trabelsi attended a meeting about state of the dams days before Storm Daniel hit city

NDRF 10th Battalion imparting training to APSDRF on life-saving techniques during calamities. 40 personnel from across State undergoing ToT programme. Training focusses on operating equipment, rescuing victims, CPR awareness, saving lives in canals/rivers, rescuing during earthquakes/landslides. SDRF personnel seen climbing tower, operating cutters, learning CPR. Trainers to train remaining force…

A hurricane watch is in place for portions of Maine, while a large area of coastal New England is under a tropical storm watch as Hurricane Lee is expected to reach the region later this week

Climate change makes deadly floods, like what happened in Libya, more likely. Floods in China, Greece and Brazil in recent weeks underscore the growing danger.

Illegal construction work in floodplains reduces the capacity of rivers to contain a high level of water within their banks

The Foreign Office said the funding was an ‘initial package’ to provide assistance for those most affected by the devastation.

More than 1,500 corpses collected, half of them buried as of Tuesday evening

Emergency workers uncovered more than 2,000 bodies in the wreckage of Libya’s eastern city of Derna, and it was feared the toll could surpass 5,000 after floodwaters smashed through dams and washed away neighborhoods

People in flooded parts of Massachusetts and Rhode Island are cleaning up even as they brace for more rain Wednesday