When floods sweep through southern Africa, the most visible damage is immediate: homes washed away, crops destroyed, clinics disrupted, families displaced. These images dominate headlines and ...

Two flood disasters, just four years apart, each underscored the threat posed by the moody and volatile Nooksack River.

Limpopo, in northern South Africa, home to 6.6 million people, several large mines and the Kruger National Park (one of Africa's largest game reserves), experienced unusually severe floods in ...

Ace Aguirre was just two bites into his oatmeal on the morning of November 4 when he noticed something strange: mud had seeped onto the living room floor of his bungalow in Cotcot, a village in the ...

Torrential rains caused severe flooding in northern Morocco, particularly in Ksar El Kebir, have prompted authorities to evacuate nearly 144,000 people and implement wide-ranging preventive measures.

FEMA rejected requests for federal assistance, twice, after devastating floods in western Maryland, part of a larger pattern of making communities pay for their own disaster recovery. FEMA rejected ...

OLYMPIA, Wash. — Gov. Bob Ferguson has formally asked the federal government to declare a major disaster in Washington following historic flooding in December, requesting an estimated $21.3 million in ...

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has paid residents of Milwaukee, Waukesha and Washington counties more than $195 million as of Jan. 6 for damage caused by August's historic flood, making it ...