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Officials are hopeful empty shelves in the flood-ravaged West Australian town of Derby will soon be filled as the clean-up continues.

Authorities are calling for calm as residents protest against food shortages and liquor bans in the wake of the catastrophic Kimberley floods. Meanwhile more rain is on its way.

Ten years after ex-Tropical Cyclone Oswald battered the Queensland coast and prompted what was then Australia's biggest ever peacetime evacuation, calls for long-awaited flood mitigation plans have been renewed.

The sun was shining again recently when Fidencio Velasquez visited what used to be 90 acres of prime Ventura County strawberry fields.

Episode three of RISE investigates an increasing frequency of extreme weather events such as the moisture-heavy storm system that stalled above 13 eastern Kentucky counties on the night of July 27, 2022 and intensified well into the morning of the 28th. The resulting flash flood claimed 44 lives and destroyed…

Nearly $6 million is clawed back from insurance companies after policyholders affected by the Victorian and NSW flood disaster complained about their treatment.

“The quarrying is to blame, no doubt about it. It’s always been like this, but we live in this area because we have nowhere else to go,” said an inspector for the Municipal Environment and Natural Resources Office.

With widespread La Niña flooding in the Murray-Darling Basin, common carp (Cyprinus carpio) populations are having a boom year. Videos of writhing masses of both adult and young fish illustrate that all is not well in our rivers. Carp now account for up to 90% of live fish mass in…

Multiple flood protection projects in California are on hold because Gov. Gavin Newsom has proposed to cut their funding

Just 1.3 percent of homeowners in the state have national flood insurance policies

From mysterious wells to formidable traders, the river town's story is fascinating.