Nearly 200,000 people in western Japan were urged to evacuate on Saturday as authorities warned of landslides and floods, ...

Climate scientists and meteorologists say the immediate cause of the flooding was a cut-off lower-pressure storm system that migrated from an unusually wavy and stalled jet stream. It was likely ...

Spain's heavy flood death toll raises questions about how one of the world's most developed nations failed to respond adequately to extreme storms likely to intensify as climate change accelerates.

“By improving irrigation, we can aim for two to three rice croppings per year, much like Japan,” he said in ... rainwater and store it underground so flooding in the ground level is less ...

The Japan Meteorological Agency will start releasing forecast information about linear rainbands, called “senjo kosuitai,” from June that could give the public major flooding warnings. “ ...

In 1966, the then Construction Ministry announced plans for the Kawabegawa dam, one of the largest dam projects in Kyushu, after huge floods overwhelmed the Kumagawa river system. Kabashima ...

When floods ripped through parts of Europe in September, the scale of the destruction took people by surprise. The intense rains should not have, because those had been predicted by sophisticated ...

Nearly 200,000 residents in western Japan are urged to evacuate due to landslide and flood warnings. The remnants of a downgraded ... which was downgraded to an extratropical low-pressure system from ...

Flooding in a wide area in eastern Spain has reportedly left more than 60 people dead. Heavy rainfall from Tuesday to Wednesday flooded buildings and caused other damage in Valencia, eastern Spain ...

Search and rescue operations are underway in eastern Spain after torrential flooding across a wide area left more than 90 people dead. Heavy rainfall from Tuesday to Wednesday flooded buildings ...