Rain-triggered disasters, including flash floods and landslides, have killed at least 250 people and affected some three million people across East Africa in recent weeks, with about half of the…
MADRID - The number of people at risk of being forced from their homes by river flooding could surge to as many as 50 million a year by the end of the century if governments do not step up action to…
With homes under water in South Yorkshire, near record flooding in Venice, and burgeoning wildfires in Australia, many people are asking if and how climate change is connected to these extreme…
Veneto’s regional council rejected a plan to combat climate change minutes before its offices on the Grand Canal, in Venice, were flooded, it has emerged as the city continues to battle high water …
Severe flooding in Venice that has left much of the Italian city under water is a direct result of climate change, the mayor says.
The highest water levels in the region in more than 50 years will…
New elevation data show that by midcentury frequent coastal flooding will rise higher than areas currently home to hundreds of millions of people
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As a result of heat-trapping…
WASHINGTON — When almost a month’s worth of rain deluged this city on Monday morning, turning streets into rivers and basements into wading pools, it showed just how vulnerable cities with aging…
Flooding along the Mississippi River is the worst it’s been since 1927. More than 50 tornadoes touched down during the Memorial Day weekend. In Denver, it snowed more than three inches last week. …
Africa has become the world's most rapidly urbanizing continent.
In sub-Saharan Africa, the urban population has doubled since the mid-1990s, and reached 400 million people in 2016. According to…
An increased risk of flooding from climate change may force UK communities to abandon homes.
The Environment Agency has called for a consultation to review the process of flood protection for…
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Mozambique's President Filipe Nysui is warning countries ravaged by Cyclone Idai could face more flooding. The cyclone's heavy rains, which killed at least 750 people in Mozambique and…
The severe flooding in the American midwest is set to only be a prelude to “unprecedented” levels of flooding across the US in the coming months that will imperil 200 million people, federal…
WASHINGTON (AP) — The United Nations’ weather agency says extreme weather last year hit 62 million people worldwide and forced 2 million people to relocate, as man-made climate change worsened.
The…
Hundreds of thousands of people scrambled for shelter, food and water across a swathe of southern Africa Friday after a cyclone killed hundreds and swept away homes and roads, as survivors face a…
Cyclone Idai has triggered a "massive disaster" in southern Africa affecting hundreds of thousands if not millions of people, the UN has said.
The region has been hit by widespread flooding and…
The death toll in Mozambique from Cyclone Idai could reach 1,000, President Filipe Nyusi has said.
It made landfall close to the port city of Beira on Thursday with winds of up to 177 km/h (106 mph…
Two boarding school pupils are among 31 people to have been killed in eastern Zimbabwe by Cyclone Idai.
They were asleep in their dormitory when rocks swept down a mountain and knocked over a wall,…
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