The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Even as control rooms will soon be set up in all taluk centres for attending to waterlogging and other rain-related emergencies, Deputy Commissioner K.V. Rajendra has told the district and taluk officials to be prepared to handle the exigencies resulting from heavy rains and warned of lodging FIRs against officials…

More than 200 million face more intense and frequent floods due to plastic pollution blocking drainage systems, report finds

A national flood management conference has been told governments need to look at where houses are being built as well as how they are being constructed.

Gary York, 65, and John Walter, 72, were killed in Buckskin Gulch and their bodies carried for miles

Houses may have to be removed, waterways opened up and new rules passed as part of an ambitious $1 billion plan to sort Auckland's flood-prone neighbourhoods within six years

The risk of catastrophic flooding in the Tulare Lake Basin has diminished as cool temperatures have predominated this spring, flattening the melt curve of the Sierra’s epic snowpack, state officials said Monday.

talian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni announced Tuesday a package worth over two €2 billion for the northeast Emilia Romagna region after devastating floods which left 14 people dead.

The Big Apple could become the Big Atlantis after a new study warned that New York is sinking under the weight of its skyscrapers. 

Honolulu has lost more than 5 miles of its famous beaches to sea level rise and storm surges. Sunny-day flooding during high tides makes many city roads impassable, and water mains for the public drinking water system are corroding from saltwater because of sea level rise.

The federal government has delivered disaster relief to four in five local government areas since 2019 and support payments are expected to rise further.

The BBMP in its report on Sunday’s tragedy blamed gusty winds that resulted in falling of dry leaves and branches, and the volume of rainfall for the flooding of the K.R. Circle underpass