Flood

The number of people killed in a powerful cyclone and flooding in Mozambique has risen above 200, more than doubling the country’s death toll from a storm that could rank as one of the worst weather-related disasters in the...

Historic floods that killed 4 and displaced hundreds force 74 Nebraska cities to issue emergency declarations The major flooding that left at least four dead in Nebraska and Iowa over the past week is slowly receding in some areas, but...

The death toll for Cyclone Idai may be more than 1,000 President Filipe Nyusi said on state broadcaster Radio Mocambique on Monday. The president said that, while the number of people confirmed dead stood at 84, the scale of the...

At least 66 people have been killed and 141,000 affected after heavy rains deluged central and northern Mozambique, the government has said as it appealed for funds to manage the crisis. The floods in one of Africa’s poorest countries have...

At least 11 people, including a one-year-old baby, have died after heavy rains in and around Sao Paulo, Brazil's largest city. On Monday, the Sao Paulo state fire department said four people died when a house collapsed in Ribeirao Pires,...

Floods in southern Malawi have killed 30 people and left over 230,000 people without shelter. Homeland Security Minister Nicholas Dausi, whose ministry is also responsible for disaster management affairs, on Sunday visited people affected by the deluges in two of...

At least 45 people have been killed after heavy rains, flash floods and snowfall hit different parts of Pakistan and Afghanistan. At least nine people were reportedly killed in Pakistan's Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), three killed in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province and...

Heavy rains and flash floods over the weekend in the country’s southwestern Baluchistan province have killed at least 13 people, injured a dozen others and damaged hundreds of homes. Head of Provincial Disaster Management Authority Imran Zarkon said yesterday that...

Rising flood waters turned the Northern California community of Guerneville in the United States into an island on Wednesday. Water rose to the roofs of homes and submerged cars as the rain-swollen Russian River overflowed its banks. Starting on Tuesday, authorities began the evacuation of...

Two more people have been killed in a landslide in Peru, bringing to at least 50 the number of people who have died since the rainy season started in September. The landslide was triggered by torrential rain in the city of Huancavelica, where...