The Latest Breaking News on Floods

The State Emergency Service has been slammed for failing to provide evidence to an inquest into two deaths during a 2022 flood that ravaged a rural NSW town.

Urban flooding is increasingly concerning in Canada, where water drainage systems are at risk of being overwhelmed. Natural watersheds have been greatly altered by construction disturbing the natural ways that water flows from rainfall, across the land and into water bodies. The result is that drainage infrastructure must cope with…

The Met Office has issued a heavy rain and flood warning for parts of northern Scotland this week.

Mali has called on the international community for aid to deal with the fall-out of severe flooding which has hit the country in recent weeks. Over 40 people have died and thousands more are displaced. Neighbouring Niger is facing a similar situation with a death toll of over 270.