Floods

Europe had most widespread floods for more than a decade in 2024

Europe faced its most widespread flooding last year since 2013, with 30% of the continent's river network hit by significant floods, scientists said on Tuesday, as fossil fuel-driven climate change…

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Flood waters drag cars into sea near Catania, Sicily

Flood waters tossed cars around in Torre Archirafi on Wednesday, dragging some into the sea, after the torrential rain that has hit Sicily turned streets into rivers in the town…

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What caused deadly floods in Spain? The impact of DANA explained

Catastrophic flash floods that have killed at least 95 people in Spain are caused by a destructive weather system in which cold and warm air meet and produce powerful rain…

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UK faces ‘significant flooding’; football match postponed

Heavy rain is hitting parts of England and Wales, with the Met Office issuing an amber weather warning for much of central and southern England. A month's worth of rainfall…

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Flood-hit central Europe will get billions in EU aid, von der Leyen promises

The European Union will make billions of euros available to help central Europe recover from severe floods, European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen said , as she pledged support…

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Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region hit by new devastating floods

A storm system that has wreaked havoc across central Europe brought devastating floods to the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna on Thursday, forcing people to leave their homes and the…

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Central Europe flood deaths rise

Volunteers and emergency personnel raced to secure river banks and buildings in Poland and Hungary as flood waters that have wreaked havoc across central Europe began to rise in new…

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Orbán cancels European Parliament speech due to flooding in Hungary

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán postponed a speech at the European Parliament on Wednesday due to flooding in Hungary. “Due to the extreme weather conditions and the ongoing floods in Hungary,…

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Floods claim more lives as torrential rain pounds central Europe

The death toll from flooding in central Europe rose to eight on Sunday as thousands of people were evacuated from their homes in the Czech Republic following days of torrential…

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At least two dead in India’s capital, schools shut after heavy rain

At least two people were killed after heavy rain in India's capital Delhi led to water logging, and schools were shut on Thursday after prediction of more rain, authorities said.…

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UPDATED: Several thousand evacuated in southern Germany floods; Search for 3rd victim of Friuli floods in Italy

A firefighter died while trying to rescue trapped residents and several thousand people were forced to leave their homes as heavy rain caused flooding in southern Germany. The 42-year-old man…

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Floods in Brazil kill 143

The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil's Rio Grande do Sul state rose to 143, the local civil defense government body said on Sunday, up from 136 in the…

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Somalia floods kill 10, displace more than 113,000 a year after drought

Floods caused by heavy rains across parts of Somalia have displaced more than 113,000 people and "temporarily affected" hundreds of thousands, the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs…

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Fire and floods across western Canada force evacuations

By Nia Williams (Reuters) - A week of record hot weather in western Canada has forced thousands of people to evacuate their homes, as wildfires rage in parts of Alberta…

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Western Australia in grip of ‘devastating’ flood emergency, Australia PM says

SYDNEY, Jan 7 (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday his government was ready to provide whatever support was needed to residents of Western Australia state as record-breaking floods…

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Philippines floods, landslides kill 44 after Christmas Day rains

MANILA (Reuters) - The death toll from flooding and landslides caused by Christmas Day rains in the southern Philippines rose to 44, with 28 others still unaccounted for, the national…

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Father and son missing as floods hit northern Albania

TIRANA, Nov 20 (Reuters) - A father and son were missing in Albania on Sunday after their car was swept into a river during floods in the north of the country as…

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UPDATE – Philippine capital braces for storm Nalgae, death toll cut to 45

MANILA (Reuters) -Manila and nearby towns braced on Saturday for Tropical Storm Nalgae, which has killed 45 people, mostly because of landslides in southern provinces of the Philippines. The Southeast…

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Flooded Australian towns ready levees, sandbags ahead of more rain

SYDNEY, Oct 19 (Reuters) - Residents in flood-hit Australian towns ramped up efforts to build levees and sandbag homes on Wednesday ahead of more rain, although authorities said the expected…

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Australia PM tours flood-hit Victoria state; evacuations, sandbagging underway

SYDNEY, Oct 16 (Reuters) - Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese on Sunday toured flood-hit parts of Victoria state, including the city of Melbourne, as three southeastern states continued to grapple…

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Heavy rains ease in Australia’s New South Wales, flood warnings remain

WELLINGTON, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Rains eased in Australia's New South Wales on Sunday but authorities continued to warn people to be aware of rising flood waters, as days of rain in…

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Sydney residents assess flood damage as wild weather eases

SYDNEY, July 7 (Reuters) - Heavy rain that pummelled Sydney over the last five days eased on Thursday as flood-weary residents looked to return to homes to take stock of the damage,…

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Thousands more evacuate in Sydney even though heavy rains ease

SYDNEY, July 6 (Reuters) - A wild storm system that has pounded several parts of Sydney with torrential rain for four days has moved away from the city, satellite images showed on…

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Australia floods worsen as thousands more flee Sydney homes

SYDNEY, July 5 (Reuters) - Torrential rains kept battering Australia's east coast on Tuesday, intensifying the flood crisis in Sydney as thousands more residents were ordered to leave their homes after rivers…

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EXPLAINER-Why Australia is battling floods again

MELBOURNE, July 4 (Reuters) - Torrential rain is lashing Australia's southeast coast, forcing thousands of people from their homes because of the danger of floods and landslides in a region battered by…

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More heavy rains set to drench Sydney as thousands evacuate

SYDNEY, July 4 (Reuters) - Fresh evacuation orders were issued for tens of thousands of Sydney residents on Monday after relentless rains flooded several suburbs in Australia's largest city, with officials warning…

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Dozens still missing as South Africa floods death toll rises to 443

ETHEKWINI, South Africa (Reuters) - Rescuers searched for dozens of people still missing in South Africa's KwaZulu-Natal (KZN) province on Sunday after heavy rains in recent days triggered floods and…

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Sydney asks thousands to evacuate as heavy rains cause flash floods

SYDNEY, April 7 (Reuters) - Torrential rain pummelled Australia's east coast on Thursday with Sydney receiving nearly a month's rain overnight, turning suburban roads into rivers and triggering evacuations as authorities warn…

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Thousands of Australians flee homes as floods inundate towns

SYDNEY, March 30 (Reuters) - Heavy rains deluged Australia's east coast on Wednesday, submerging entire towns, while thousands of people fled their homes for the second time within weeks after fast-moving flood waters burst…

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Australia to declare east coast floods a national emergency

SYDNEY, March 9 (Reuters) - Floods that have devastated Australia's east coast will be declared a national emergency, Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Wednesday, as authorities look to deploy aid and…

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‘Tough 24 hours ahead’ as rains drench Sydney, forcing snap evacuations

SYDNEY, March 8 (Reuters) - Flood warnings stretched across Australia's east coast on Tuesday and tens of thousands of Sydney residents fled their homes as torrential rains again pummelled the country's largest…

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Photo Story – Cleanup after flooding in Brisbane, Australia

The Australian Defence Force help clean up at the Rocklea Cold Storage facility in Brisbane, Australia, 05 March 2022. Queensland faces further severe storms as the mud army of volunteers…

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Climate change made deadly floods in Western Europe at least 20% more likely – study

MADRID (Reuters) - Climate change has made extreme rainfall events of the kind that sent lethal torrents of water hurtling through parts of Germany and Belgium last month at least…

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One dead, two missing as torrential rains slam Japan, risk alerts broadened

One woman was dead and two other people were missing on Saturday after torrential rains touched off a landslide and engulfed two houses in Nagasaki prefecture in western Japan. With…

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Dozens rescued after towns around popular tourist spot Lake Como hit by landslides and heavy rain

More than 60 people have been rescued after towns surrounding Lake Como were hit by mudslides and floods as extreme weather gripped northern Italy. Firefighters grappled with debris to save…

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Southern Europe battles wildfires as north cleans up after floods

Wildfires burned in regions across southern Europe, fuelled by hot weather and strong winds, as some northern countries cleaned up after a weekend of torrential rain and flooding. In Greece,…

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Philippines evacuates thousands as monsoon rains flood cities, provinces

MANILA (Reuters) - Philippine authorities moved thousands of residents of the capital, Manila, out of their low-lying communities on Saturday as heavy monsoon rain, compounded by a tropical storm, flooded…

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Germany faces calls for mobile phone disaster alerts after floods

BERLIN, July 20 (Reuters) - German authorities faced pressure on Tuesday to set aside longstanding privacy concerns and send mobile phone alerts directly to people in potential disaster zones following…

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Germany hopes for EU money to rebuild infrastructure

The German government aims to rebuild government-owned infrastructure damaged by the floods in the western part of the country as quickly as possible and hopes for contributions to the cost from the…

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Critics accuse German government of flood warning failures

STEINBACHTAL DAM, Germany, July 19 (Reuters) - German Interior Minister Horst Seehofer rejected criticism the government had failed to sufficiently warn people of last week's floods, as the death toll…

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Photo Story: Floods in Switzerland

A view of tents in the flooded VD8 camping in Cheseaux-Noreaz near Yverdon-les-Bains on the eastern shore of lake Neuchatel, Switzerland, on Monday morning, after heavy rains. Water levels across…

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Rhine river partially closed in Germany to shipping by floodwaters

Parts of the river Rhine in south Germany remained closed to shipping on Monday after a rise in water levels following recent torrential rain, German authorities said. The southern Rhine…

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‘It’s terrifying’: Merkel shaken as flood deaths rise to 188 in Europe

BERCHTESGADEN/BISCHOFSWIESEN, Germany, July 18 (Reuters) - G erman Chancellor Angela Merkel described the flooding that has devastated parts of Europe as "terrifying" on Sunday after the death toll across the…

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Thousands evacuated in Australia’s worst flooding in almost half a century

Australian authorities issued fresh flood warnings and evacuation orders on Tuesday as torrential rains again pummelled several parts of the country, sweeping away homes, roads and livestock in the worst…

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Floods kill 17 people in central Vietnam

At least 17 people have been killed by floods in Vietnam's central provinces in the past week and 13 are still missing, state media said on Sunday as the country…

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China evacuates 100,000 as floods threaten heritage site

Floods on the upper reaches of China’s Yangtze river forced authorities to evacuate more than 100,000 people on Tuesday and threatened a 1,200-year-old world heritage site. Staff, police and volunteers…

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Red Cross sends thousands of volunteers to help North Korea cope with coronavirus, floods

The Red Cross has sent more than 43,000 volunteers to North Korea, including to the locked-down city of Kaesong, to help fight the novel coronavirus and provide flood assistance, an…

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Milan hit by torrential rain and flash floods

Milan was hit by flash floods after torrential rain on Friday. The Seveso and Lambro rivers broke their banks. Hail also hit the northern city damaging cars. Tree branches were blown onto…

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Photo Story: Floods on Friday in Milan

Scenes on Friday morning in Milan, Italy. According to media reports, heavy rains battered the city in the early morning hours causing the Seveso and the Lambro rivers to overflow…

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China says floods situation remains ‘grim as 33 rivers hit record levels

As many as 33 rivers in China have risen to their highest levels in history during the current wave of floods, a senior water ministry official said on Monday, as…

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Nearly 40 feared dead in floods in southwest Japan

Nearly 40 people were feared dead as torrential rains continued to hit Japan’s southwestern island of Kyushu, with river banks at risk of bursting on Monday morning and new evacuation…

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Heavy flooding in southwestern Japan

Japan is sending thousands of troops to join rescue operations on the southern island of Kyushu, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said on Saturday, as three people were reported badly injured…

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Floods in India’s Assam force a million from their homes

Heavy flooding triggered by monsoon rains has forced more than a million people to flee their homes in the northeast Indian state of Assam, authorities said on Monday, warning that…

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Michigan flooding displaces thousands, encroaches on chemical plant

Rising floodwaters unleashed by two dam failures submerged parts of the central Michigan town of Midland on Wednesday, displacing thousands of residents and spreading into a Dow Chemical Co plant…

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175,000 people displaced after floods in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta

175,000 people ended up displaced in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta and nearby towns, after flash floods and landslides killed at least 53 people, amid some of the heaviest rain since records…

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Photo Story: The fatal floods in Jakarta

Indonesian rescuers evacuate a boy from a flooded area in Jakarta, Indonesia, 02 January 2020. Overnight heavy rains triggered widespread flooding in Jakarta and surrounding areas, killing at least 21.…

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‘Acqua Alta’ hits again Venice

Venice was hit by 'acqua alta' or high water flooding of 144cm on Monday. Some 60% of the ground in the lagoon city was under water. A potentially critical acqua…

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