The red areas on the map below show where there has been flooding in recent days. In Germany, the states of Rhineland-Palatinate and North Rhine-Westphalia have been worst hit. In Belgium ...

A firefighter was killed when the rubber dinghy he was riding on capsized during severe flooding, and at least two people are missing in south Germany as the region braces for more rainstorms.

Short, heavy rainfall is typical of the Mediterranean, but nothing is typical about what has been happening there recently.

The Elbe is expected to flood on Sunday due to heavy rain forecast for the neighboring Czech Republic. The German state of ...

Amid the despair and the mounting death toll in Germany and Belgium are questions about how such a disaster could have happened. The flooding followed record rainfall in parts of western Europe ...

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 ...

Global warming has pushed the global water cycle into new climate extremes, including massive floods, tropical cyclones, ...

The most challenging floods to manage are caused by multiple flood processes. Last winter in the lower Rhine basin in Germany and the Netherlands, three flood processes combined to produce ...