About 20 percent of Japan’s population resides in areas that are at risk of flooding when heavy rain causes rivers to overflow, according to a recent Asahi Shimbun analysis. The number has ...

Floods and landslides killed one person and left at least 11 missing in central Japan, with recovery teams ... residents that ...

Rescuers on Wednesday recovered the body of a ninth victim of severe floods which battered parts of central Japan last week, local media said. A woman's body was found near a river in Wajima city ...

Two weeks after flash floods killed hundreds of people, several areas of Spain have been placed on high alert as a new ...

Three people were killed and three others are missing in flooding in southwest Japan caused by the region's "heaviest" rain ever. Rivers overflowed and hillsides collapsed as record amounts of ...

At least 155 people have died in floods and landslides triggered by torrential rain in western Japan, says the government. It is the highest death toll caused by rainfall that Japan has seen in ...

Floods and landslides killed one person and left at least six missing in central Japan, with recovery teams ... residents that the rain could flood the sewer system and dirty water could rise ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the ...

Heavy rain that triggered floods and landslides on a Japanese penisula ... "in a state of cardio-respiratory arrest", a term used in Japan before a feared death can be confirmed by a doctor.

In particular, these recent flood events were made worse by Boston and New York’s combined sewer systems, which carry both stormwater and sewage in the same pipes. When such a system reaches ...

Floods and landslides killed one person and left at least 11 missing in central Japan, with recovery teams at work on Sunday in a remote peninsula already devastated by a major earthquake this year.