Nearly half of Indonesia’s peatlands are vulnerable to flooding due to degradation caused by unchecked exploitation, with 6 million hectares (15 million acres) — an area twice the size of Belgium — ...

BRUSSELS, Aug. 1 (Xinhua) -- Severe storms struck Belgium on Thursday ... protection are deployed to help residents impacted by the floods. According to a monthly climate report published Thursday ...

There are moderate flood warnings for the Herbert and Bohle ... There have been two minor rockfalls in Belgian Gardens and Castle Hill. Floodwaters inundated the downstairs of Daniel Leoni's ...

A three-day flood watch advisory for Thunder Bay and surrounding rural municipalities was lifted on Monday morning amid no reports of flooding activity. “A flood watch is for the potential of ...

Hiking the Pacific Crest Trail that runs through three western states is already challenging. Now the grueling journey may ...

Weather forecasters sometimes warn of storms that unleash rains so unusual they are described as 100-year or even 500-year floods. Here’s what to know about how scientists determine how extreme ...

Belgium, which has voiced concern about Rwanda's support for rebels in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), has said it will respond in kind. Rwanda has severed all diplomatic ties with ...

A "100-year flood" means a 1% chance of that level of flooding happening each year. Houston saw three 500-year flood events within three years from 2015 to 2017, including Hurricane Harvey.