27 May 2023
A river near Edinburgh, UK, has served for more than a decade as a natural laboratory for studying flood defences, providing benefits such as improved water quality worth millions of pounds
30 March 2023
An analysis of flood data from 101 rivers in Germany and the US has identified clues that indicate a danger of unprecedented extreme flooding
7 March 2023
With 1.8°C of warming, the average yearly cost of flood damage in the UK is predicted to increase by 4 per cent, but some parts of the country will see bigger rises
23 February 2023
Analysis of flooding on the Yellow River in China suggests that mud barriers intended to prevent flooding resulted in more frequent floods
16 March 2022
Australia's record-breaking rainfall and flooding has provided an ideal breeding ground for Culex mosquitoes, which transmit the Japanese encephalitis virus
28 February 2022
A slow-moving low-pressure system has dropped 790 millimetres of rain on Brisbane in one week, causing floods that have claimed eight lives
30 July 2020
Coastal floods wrought by rising seas could affect tens of millions more people and wipe out assets worth trillions of dollars by the end of the century, if the world fails to prevent the worst-case climate change scenario
22 July 2020
The years 1990-2016 rank among the worst periods of flooding in Europe in five centuries, according to an assessment of historical letters, annals and legal records
27 May 2020
Forget the naysayers: what we must do to combat climate change is far less drastic than coronavirus measures, says World Meteorological Organization head Petteri Taalas
18 September 2019
Climate change will increase the risk of heavy rainfall and storm surges combining to cause extreme flooding around the UK, Germany and other parts of northern Europe
