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“It would be decimated”: Furious residents fight council's 'unjustified' plans to destroy trees around beauty spot

Council bosses say the trees must be removed as part of a flood mitigation plan

Manchester Evening News

Plea to Scottish Water to stop 'recurrent' flooding in Clydebank

The streets in Linnvale are prone to flooding whenever there is heavy rainfall.

Glasgow Live

Pakistan’s female agriculture workers suffering since 2022 floods

Seven months after catastrophic deluge destroyed homes and crops, millions of women continue to live in debt and penury.

Al Jazeera

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Storm Mathis set to tear through the UK with battering 70mph winds within HOURS

The French-named weather storm could smash into the UK tonight, with the potential to bring "structural damage to buildings" as parts of southern England remain under a yellow weather warning

Daily Mirror

Riverina council repairs 40-metre pothole created during 2022 flood disaster

A roadway chasm that reached a depth of nine metres took more than a bit of hot mix to patch up in western NSW.

ABC News

Worry and suspicion reign as once-dry Tulare Lake drowns California farmland

CORCORAN, Calif. — Sixth Avenue used to cut through miles of farmland. Now, the road has disappeared under muddy water, its path marked by sodden telephone poles that protrude from the swelling lake. Water laps just below the windows of a lone farmhouse that sits alongside the submerged route.

Los Angeles Times

Flood-ruined WA bridge to be rebuilt six times stronger

A longer, sturdier bridge will be built over WA's Fitzroy River after unprecedented flooding washed away the old one in January, cutting a key transport route.

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California farmers flood fields to boost groundwater basin

With water gushing through California’s rivers, some farmers have started devoting a portion of their land to capture these flows and let them seep into the ground

The Independent UK

The cure for winter flooding might be in this swamp — if California actually funds it

Matt Kaminski stood on a road scarcely higher than the floodplain, glassy pools on all sides stretched out like something from a dream. In the distance, a storm lumbered over the Coast Ranges.

Tribune News Service

The environment is flourishing post floods, but experts warn support must be ongoing

Environmental experts are calling for more help to allow Murray-Darling Basin wetlands to thrive long after the recession of floodwater.

ABC News

Nambucca River causes massive problems for oyster grower with three floods, sewage spills

One natural disaster can be a massive setback for a business, but oyster grower James Ford has endured three, which left his lease contaminated by sewage as well.

ABC News

Residents near Georgia reservoir evacuated after dam overflows

ATLANTA — People who live in the Heads Creek Reservoir area of Spalding County, Goergia, were evacuated Monday as a precaution after the dam began to overflow due to heavy rainfall in a short amount of time, according to officials.

Tribune News Service

Residents near Georgia reservoir evacuated; dam could fail

People who live in the Heads Creek Reservoir area of Spalding County in Georgia are being evacuated Monday as the dam is at risk of failure, according to officials.

Tribune News Service

They grow America’s strawberries. A vicious flood made them climate migrants

California immigrant farm workers bore the brunt of this winter’s extreme weather – yet have scant resources to put their lives back together

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Daily Mirror

Inside the UK's most flooded town where streets are often awash with 'mud and debris'

Floods have cost the Cornish town of Looe an estimated £39million of damage between 2012 and 2017, with almost all the businesses in the town affected by the water surge

Los Angeles Times

‘We’ve lost the aqueduct’: How severe flooding threatens a Los Angeles water lifeline

OLANCHA, Calif. — For more than 100 years, the Los Angeles Aqueduct has endured earthquakes, flash floods and dozens of bomb attacks as it wends and weaves through the canyons and deserts of the eastern Sierra Nevada.

ABC News

Kalkarindji flood evacuees begin repatriation from Howard Springs back to community

Around 700 people were evacuated to Darwin from the remote communities of Kalkarindji, Pigeon Hole and Daguragu earlier this month as flooding hit the Victoria Daly region of the Northern Territory.

Los Angeles Times

In Pajaro, children and teens grapple with displacement after flooding

WATSONVILLE, Calif. — The school buses arrived in quick succession, looping past the entrance of the Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds and a parking lot packed with cars before stopping near Harvest Building, a low-slung yellow structure usually used for fundraisers.

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The Independent UK

Missouri man makes harrowing rescue in flash flood

One Missouri man's Friday morning took an unexpected turn when he rescued a woman from flash floods engulfing her SUV

The Independent UK

2 dead in Missouri flash flood; tornado threat in the South

A car was swept away and two passengers drowned early Friday in Missouri during torrential rains that were part of a severe weather system roaring across parts of the Midwest and South

The Independent UK

3 people die in Arizona after being caught in floodwaters

Authorities say at least three people were found dead this week after their vehicles were swept away by floodwaters in Arizona

Reuters

Amid deluge, California farmers flood their fields in order to save them

When Don Cameron first intentionally flooded his central California farm in 2011, pumping excess stormwater onto his fields, fellow growers told him he was crazy.

ABC News

First Nations flood survivors 'out in the bush and left in the dark'

Some remote communities hit by flooding in the Gulf of Carpentaria say having a representative on a Voice to Parliament may be the key to them receiving better support in future disasters.

Newsroom.co.nz

Flood-affected Aucklanders breathe a sigh of rates relief

Although Auckland Council’s big cleanup following this year’s extreme weather events continues, “things are getting more difficult at this point”.

Bristol Post

Urgent flood warnings for Bristol after heavy rain batters South West

The Environment Agency has issued a couple of red warnings along with some lower level alerts as well

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