When Tropical Storm Debby came through Pinellas County, Florida in early August, Danielle Jensen thought her home was protected with flood insurance from the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP).

“Extreme events are getting stronger everywhere, so we should expect floods to be bigger regardless of where we are,” said Michael Wehner, a scientist at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory.

While it’s difficult to draw a conclusive link between this event and climate change, experts say the most severe floods to hit the region in at least two decades fit into a broader pattern of ...

That amount of rain in that period of time qualifies as a so-called 1,000-year flood expected only once in a that era, meteorologists at the National Weather Service office in Wilmington said.

"We are suffering. We could not eat for the past three days. We have nowhere to live as the flood washed away all our belongings," Maryamu Daniel said, her family sheltering under a tree.

The first estimations show that the cost of the current floods alone could surpass a billion euros, but the precise costs are yet to be summed up as the torrential rain from Storm Boris keeps ...

At least 17 people have been killed in some of the worst floods to hit central Europe in decades as Storm Boris sweeps through the region, dumping well over a month’s worth of rain. Austria ...

Many Polish cities, including Warsaw, have called for food donations for flood survivors. Experts warned of flood threats due to cresting Oder River in Opole, a city of some 130,000 residents ...

Eight reported dead in floods over past two days More than 10,000 evacuated in Czech Republic Bridge in historic Polish town collapses Budapest readies for rising river Danube JESENIK, Czech ...

At least 17 have been killed in what authorities have called the worst floods to hit central and eastern Europe in decades. The mayor of Nysa in Poland ordered the evacuation of all 44,000 ...

For some, the disaster recalled the devastating floods that struck the region in July 1997, killing more than 100 people and driving thousands of others out of their homes. “This was a very ...

Authorities and volunteers are racing against time to fortify flood defenses. In Austria, the Cistercian Abbey of Heiligenkreuz in the Vienna Woods, one of the world’s oldest continuously ...