A year's worth of precipitation fell in a little over an hour. The rain raced down steep, rocky slopes, collecting in streams and gullies, until it crashed into an angry, rapidly rising river. It was ...

The floods that affected Western Maryland in May upended people’s lives and left many of our neighbors struggling to recover. The damage was substantial, and the recovery is ongoing. There are lessons ...

At least 52 people have been killed in Nepal due to landslides and floods triggered by heavy rainfall that started late last week along the Chure Hills and Madhes province before it moved to the ...

This past summer, my wife, our 7-year-old grandson, and I experienced firsthand the tragic flood on the Guadalupe River in Texas. The first floor of my brother’s riverfront house washed away, as did ...

It was in 2005 that the most debilitating floods took place in Mumbai in 2005 on July 26, resulting in a loss of over a thousand lives. Yet two decades down the line, what has changed? Not the floods; ...

Press release from the American Flood Coalition: Last week, a delegation of local leaders from Western North Carolina traveled to Kerr County, Texas, to exchange flood recovery lessons in the wake of ...

Recovery efforts in Central Texas are being shaped by lessons learned from past disasters, as communities work to rebuild after the July 4 flood. Years before the flooding, Hurricane Harvey forced ...

The recent Guadalupe floods in Texas brought back horrible memories of the June 1972 Rapid City, South Dakota, flood, which took the lives of 238 people. I am incensed that news organizations did not ...

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When historic floods tore through Texas this summer, claiming more than 130 lives, it was a grim reminder of what happens when flood protection falls short. But California’s flood protection system — ...

Scientists have discovered that many flood maps may underestimate serious risks due to hidden changes in river channels.