People living in Nairobi’s Mathare slum fear that if catastrophic flooding does not bring down their homes, the government will. Jane Kalekye trudges through the narrow muddy alley to her tin-roof house in Mathare, one of Kenya’s largest slums. Ever since the devastating floods that forced her out of her home last month, she...
Seventy-five people are now known to have died in the flooding in Brazil’s southern Rio Grande do Sul state, while more than 100 people remain missing, local authorities said on Sunday. The state’s civil defence authority said 101 people were unaccounted for and more than 80,000 had been displaced after record-breaking...
The storms also triggered landslides and the partial collapse of a dam structure at a small hydro-electric power plant. Flooding from heavy rains battering Brazil's southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul has killed 39 people, according to local authorities, with the death toll expected to rise as dozens remain unaccounted-for....
A Manitoba First Nations has declared a state of emergency in response to the ongoing health crisis impacting the community. The chief of Peguis First Nation, in Manitoba’s Interlake area, says the crisis is directly linked to devastating floods, the worst of which came in 2022....
The Russian city of Orenburg battled rising water levels on Thursday after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan burst their banks in the worst flooding seen in the areas in nearly a century.The deluge of meltwater has forced over 110,000 people from their homes in Russia's Ural Mountains, Siberia and Kazakhstan as major...
Sea-level rise and stronger storms are making flood control in South Florida obsolete, but officials are studying how massive water pumps and taller spillway gates could keep South Florida drier un…
The death toll from devastating floods in Somalia is close to 100, with almost two million people affected, the country's cabinet said Thursday....
Flood warnings in effect starting Friday 9/15/2023 at 6pm....
Relief workers warned Wednesday that Libya's catastrophic floods may bring unexploded bombs and mines from past conflicts to the surface, posing fresh threats to a nation that has already lost more than 11,000 people in the disaster....
Deadly floods triggered by a powerful storm have left a trail of destruction in eastern Libya. Thousands of bodies were recovered in one city alone after dams collapsed and wiped out entire neighborhoods....
An artificial intelligence from Google can predict floods even in regions with little data on water flow, and its predictions four days in advance are as accurate as conventional systems manage for the same day
Approximately 12,000 volunteers joined forces across Slovenia on August 14 to provide assistance in flood relief efforts as part of the Solidarity Day, which was designated as a day off from work....
The International Rescue Committee (IRC) is responding to flash floods in Bangladesh that have displaced over 15,000 Rohingya refugees and 300,000 members of the local communities in Cox’s Bazar....
At least 12 people were killed and up to 40 more are missing following a flash flood caused by torrential rain in central Afghanistan, a government spokesman said today....
Utah was spared from widespread flooding, but the impact record snowpack will have the rest of the year, remains to be seen.
Utah's record snowpack led to the distribution of over 2 million sandbags to prevent flooding similar to that in 1983. However, the snowmelt process went smoothly, avoiding significant flooding....
