The Latest Breaking News on Floods

In India, there is a lack of real-time data that alerts people on places that are likely to be flooded. The article talks about a team of researchers from IIT Bombay who has turned to Twitter to crowdsource data to identify that are water logged after heavy rainfall that anyone…

Heavy rains lashed several parts of Gujarat in the last 24 hours, inundating low-lying areas in cities and villages and creating a flood-like situation.

Just months after a levee failure inundated the small farmworker community of Pajaro, Calif., and sent thousands fleeing, cracks have already begun forming in the regional agency tasked with maintaining flood infrastructure.

Local councils will share in almost $1.8 billion in advance payments to help fix infrastructure damaged in successive natural disasters.

The Federal Emergency Management Agency’s Risk Rating 2.0 pricing plan could raise average flood insurance rates 100%, and states like Florida and Louisiana are pushing back.

After months of concern that Sierra Nevada snowmelt would send torrents of water into an already flooded Tulare Lake and inundate more communities and infrastructure, Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office has announced that the waters of the resurgent lake have finally begun to recede.

A flood buyback scheme for low-lying properties in the Northern Rivers needs a reset, NSW premier Chris Minns says, amid widespread confusion over eligibility.

The State government is in the final stages of finalising an action plan for a World Bank project to prevent floods in the city. The project will make a whopping ₹3000 crore available for flood mitigation in the city, parts of which have been flooded over the years including in…

Residents of the flood-hit northern NSW town of Lismore are feeling abandoned by governments following sluggish recovery efforts.

Councils impacted by devastating floods in 2022 say nothing has changed in disaster response strategies, with fears problems could recur.

Rebuilding country towns after natural disasters will be quicker under new rules being deployed for the first time in the NSW Northern Rivers.