(Click on images for larger view.)Rising waters flooded parts of New South Wales and Victoria, Australia, in March 2012, forcing some residents to evacuate their homes. On March 15, evacuation orders were lifted for the northern Victoria town of Nathal...

By Sharon Carty I don't know what to say. As a journalist since graduating college in 1995, I have been around a lot of disasters. A plane crash... Read more: Extreme Weather, ...

By: Rebecca Jacobson Click on the map above for an interactive version. Will your city or county be flooded by 2020? By 2050? Now there's a map for that. As many as 3.7 million U.S. residents in 2,150 coastal areas could be battered by damaging fl...

Ties to land are curbing migration and improving access to everything from loans to compensation for crop losses

Wagga Wagga has been given the all clear but the NSW country city of Griffith is now being told it could be cut off by flooding as the crisis spreads.

GREAT DELUGE: Flood Misery - 5000 Evacuated in Wagga Wagga as Floods Continue in Australia! A mass evacuation is now underway in Wagga Wagga after new forecasts predicted the Murrumbidgee River would overflow the town's levee system. More than 5...

The mayor of Victoria's flood ravaged Moira Shire says the floods in the area are the worst in at least 50 years.

Patients are being evacuated from the Numurkah Hospital near Shepparton as the flood emergency in northeast Victoria intensifies.

(Click on image for larger view.)A combination of melting snow, overflowing rivers, and heavy rains flooded parts of northwestern Tunisia in late February 2012. The Tunisian Army evacuated residents of multiple towns in the region of Tunis, Tunisia Liv...

The floods in the Brazil's northeastern state of Acre have already caused at least one death and affected about 117,000 people, the National Defense Ministry said on Monday.

[IFRC] Quelimane - Following the cyclone and floods that ravaged Quelimane town and its outskirts, health officials have ...

Aid agencies in Pakistan say the country is not ready for another monsoon season, with many of the victims of last year's deadly floods still without adequate food, water and shelter. Two years ago floods inundated a fifth of the country displacing abo...

Damage totaled $14.8 million in 2011.

The Malaysian government has donated US $1 million to be utilized by MERCY Malaysia, a leading Malaysian relief agency, to undertake various projects in the Sindh province to alleviate the sufferings of people stricken by last year’s monsoon floods.

A State Emergency Service volunteer rescuer was the first person on the scene as two-metre high floodwaters trapped 20 people in cars in Sydney.

ENFORCING forced evacuation of residents of landslide- and flood-prone areas in mountain barangays is made more difficult with the absence of suitable relocation sites.

The North Island was peppered with almost 12,000 lightning strikes last night as thunderstorms and torrential rain brought floods and caused homes to be evacuated.Thunderstorms were tracked mostly around northern parts of Auckland...

An estimated 43 percent of affected people in two provinces are severely short of food, and malnutrition is on the rise, a report says

Nearly a hundred families were evacuated from their homes in Lanao del Norte province on Thursday after incessant rains flooded five villages and overflowed a river, the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council reported.

Flood engineers say the huge floods that devastated Brisbane last year could also happen on a similar scale in Melbourne, Perth, Adelaide, the Gold Coast and Newcastle.

The people affected by Typhoon Sendong have been through an awful lot, but they're ready to move on now.

Cyclone Giovanna made landfall on February 13th at 20h00 local time. The cyclone is classified as a category 4, with winds of up to 194km (120mph) ripping up trees and electricity pylons. Official reports stated that there are at least 10 casualties as of now. The two ...

THE floods inundating northern NSW and Queensland are likely to have been driven in part by human-induced climate change - although the precise extent of this influence won't be known for another decade.

Low-lying areas in this city and three towns in Albay were flooded while the national highway along Barangay (village) Sogod in Tiwi town was rendered impassable by a landslide on Sunday amid incessant rain in the Bicol region since Saturday.

Residents of this town braced themselves for more floods as intermittent rains continued for a second straight day on Saturday, with many of them moving into an evacuation camp set up in the town center.

Penrith experienced flooding overnight as more than 100mm of rain fell, its heaviest in 15 years.

OZAMIZ CITY—Massive flooding spawned by about 10 hours of heavy rains since Thursday evening hit several areas of Misamis Occidental, including this city on Friday but no casualty had been reported so far, officials said. Residents had to flee when t...

Ten hours of continuous heavy rains starting Thursday evening flooded several areas in Misamis Occidental, including this city, on Friday, but no casualties have been reported, officials said.

Emergency Services Minister Neil Roberts says the Defence Force is making good progress in the flood clean-up of the towns of Mitchell and Roma in Queensland's southern inland.

[IPS] Nsjane - They survived floods and witnessed the horrific scenes of their houses, livestock, household items and ...