The Elbe is expected to flood on Sunday due to heavy rain forecast for the neighboring Czech Republic. The German state of Saxony, where Dresden is located, is also bracing for continuous rainfall ...

Botswana's President has threatened to dispatch a herd of 20,000 elephants to Germany in a spat over wildlife conservation ...

A study of ancient flood records shows that recent extreme floods in Europe are not historically unique. Recent ...

Record floods engulfed the historic eastern German city of Dresden today, swamping its Baroque architecture and driving thousands from their homes. A tide of debris-laden brown water also ...

The death toll in floods across a large part of southern Germany rose to four on Monday as three bodies were recovered from inundated basements. Chancellor Olaf Scholz visited the flooded region ...

Heavy rainfall and the resulting flooding and inundations are among the most significant natural hazards, with severe ...

Recent “unprecedented” floods are not exceptional if we look further into the past, new research shows. A team of scientists – led by the University of Exeter – used geological palaeo-flood records to ...

The Severn analysis shows that floods in the last 72 years of monitoring are not exceptional in the context of paleo-flood records of the last 4,000 years. The largest flood in the Upper Severn ...

Perils has updated its industry-loss estimate for the September floods in Central Europe and Italy to EUR2.19bn ($2.4bn). This compares with the second estimate of EUR2.08bn in December and its ...

A new study led by the University of Exeter challenges the perception that recent extreme floods in various parts of the ...