The Latest Breaking News on Floods

Vermont has confirmed its first death related to the recent storms and historic flooding, a man who died as a result of a drowning accident in his home

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…