The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Families in Kuttanad are facing agony due to recurring floods, delaying funerals and making it difficult to access crematoriums/ graveyards. Portable LPG crematoriums and above-ground burial vaults have been used in less severe flood situations. Residents are demanding public crematoriums/ burial vaults in areas not prone to flooding. The Edathua…

NEW DELHI: After breaching a 45-year record three days ago, water levels in the Yamuna in Delhicame down to 208.17 metres at 6 pm on Friday even as several key areas in the city were inundated.

After heavy rains lashed many parts of North India, the National Capital has been dealing with a flood crisis, with water levels in the river Yamuna reaching an all-time high -- flowing at over 208 meters -- on Thursday. While the water levels have started slowly receding, several areas of…

There’s a slow-motion disaster happening this week as houses collapse into a canyon in Rolling Hills Estates, a city in L.A. County. But to scientists who study the geology and climate changes behind this landslide, things seem to be happening all too quickly.

Over a third of Americans under extreme heat warnings as Vermont, still recovering from historic flooding, prepares for more storms

In Windham, Vermont, a wooden A-frame house that normally evokes blustery winters sits on a roadway transformed by record rainfall into a river. Twenty miles away in Bridgewater, a man wades through waist-high waters clutching his belongings. In Montpelier, the state’s capital, life jacket-clad rescuers navigate rubber rescue boats, while…

Fish, beavers and skunks all suffered from the deluge this week. But good news: populations are healthy and they will rebound

Vermont is preparing for the next round of storms — and possibly a tornado — as people took advantage of a second day of calm weather to clean up from historic flooding that damaged thousands of homes, businesses and roads, and left some residents stranded

Flash floods devastate Northeast, claiming lives and causing widespread damage