The Latest Breaking News on Floods

As the painstakingly slow recovery continues for flooded communities across parts of Australia, a land management group says it's possible to take more than 2 metres off the flood peak by slowing the flow of water across the landscape.

A local official in eastern Congo says the death toll from recent floods has nearly doubled to almost 400 people, The administrator of the Kalehe territory of South Kivu province told The Associated Press by phone that more bodies were recovered Sunday, including many found floating in Lake Kivu

At least 176 people die in flash floods in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and 130 in neighbouring Rwanda as heavy rain destroys buildings and forces aid workers to gather mud-clad corpses into piles.

The devastating floods that occurred in the country between 1985 and 2020 during the summer monsoon season were directly associated with atmospheric rivers

Federal officials have presented a proposal to further control flooding in the Mississippi Delta

‘Plinth’ settlements built on raised ground above the country’s flooding rivers are providing permanent homes and emergency refuges

Heavy rain and strong winds will batter Ireland as Met Eireann has issued a dreary forecast May

They were the most disastrous floods in recent living memory, causing massive disruption and forcing hundreds of Edinburgh residents to seek temporary accommodation.

NSW Farmers say a process to protect people and property in flood-prone areas is long overdue, especially after the deadly devastation in the Northern Rivers last year.