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Officials say rescuers backed by troops have evacuated more than 25,000 people from a city in eastern Pakistan as rising rivers threatened to flood the region

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A “FARCE” of a green energy development will destroy a valuable peat carbon store and create a flood risk for a village built at the site of an…

The Yamuna River is in spate, and India’s capital, Delhi, is yet again gripped by devastating floods. Following non-stop rainfall and after water was released from Haryana’s Hathnikund Barrage, Yamuna’s water level rose far above the danger mark. As a result, low-lying areas have been inundated, roads resembled rivers, and…

Gurdaspur is usually slow, almost sleepy, when the skies above are not lit with drones from across the border. But the rains came hard, and with them the Majha belt – Ajnala, Ferozepur, Fazilka – was underwater in a day. By the second, cavalcades of Fortuners and Hiluxes rolled in,…

Flooding in northern India and Pakistan has destroyed homes – and hundreds of thousands of acres of crops

Maureen Gilbert, 83, was discovered drowned in her home after river in Chesterfield overflowed

Since the catastrophic floods of 2022, just 41 homes in the Northern Rivers have been raised, retrofitted or relocated. Far more have been bought back – and those living in them have been told to leave