As Liberia’s rainy season gets underway, the country’s national disaster agency warns it is not prepared for what could become one of the worst flooding seasons in recent history. International ...

A t 9:52 a.m. on Monday, the National Weather Service released an updated coastal flood advisory valid from 7 p.m. until ...

Texas lawmakers’ inaction on flood prevention often hits rural and economically disadvantaged communities the hardest, ...

Tourists were urgently evacuated out of the Marble Arch Caves in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, as water cascaded in from ...

Tourists were urgently evacuated out of the Marble Arch Caves in Co Fermanagh, Northern Ireland, as water cascaded in from ...

Many have decried Kerr County's lack of sirens on the Guadalupe River. Officials in counties that have the systems say they are well worth the money.

Before modern forecasting, hurricanes were mass casualty events. The 1900 Galveston Hurricane killed over 8,000 people, wiping out an entire city with a 15-foot storm surge. Less than a century ago, ...

Failing to translate flood forecasts into timely messages that tell people what they need to do to stay safe can have tragic ...

Two massive disasters this year — the Texas floods and Los Angeles firestorms — are leading some to grapple with the question ...

Even when floods can be anticipated, communicating their severity to the public is a tall order. Because flash floods are ...

Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up.