Experts believe that Japan's flood management system is among the best in the world, and Malaysia could consider adopting a similar approach.

Many schools are built in floodplains, leaving the buildings vulnerable to inundation particularly as climate change enhances ...

The older FEMA floodplain map for the Swan Valley area had 97 residential properties. The new mapping adds 95.

Nearly 30 years ago, unseasonably warm rains melted the snowpack in the Truckee, Carson, and Walker Rivers, bursting over ...

The grumbling won’t be letting up. Britain is getting wetter and, as a result, its inhabitants are being subjected to more ...

The fast-moving floodwaters had made earlier rescue attempts by ambulance and boat impossible. Trees, trailers, buildings, ...

Southeast Texas was hit by flash flooding repeatedly in the spring, and then hit again by Hurricane Beryl. In one ...

Recent days have seen torrential rain sweep through central and eastern Europe, swelling rivers and triggering flood warnings in the Czech Republic, Poland, Austria, Slovakia, and Hungary.

A reduced payment of about $6,300, instead of the originally proposed $8,000, by property owners in a zone at risk of glacial ...

"At about 4pm on Saturday, the Shaw was bone dry, and by 6pm, it was about 60 metres wide and in full flood," he said. "With so much force and power, and just debris everywhere — it's a ...