Flood News

Some Southeastern states declared emergencies and officials urged residents to head inland Thursday as Tropical Storm Hanna headed toward the Atlantic coast, where it could bring high winds and rain from South ...

Dry corn stalks appear in a field near Farmersville, Ill., Wednesday. Less than two months after Midwest farmers watched torrential rains and swollen rivers flood their fields, corn crops are drying under hot, ...

The death toll from flooding in northern India has reached about 100 as rescuers try to aid tens of thousands of villagers cut off by a monsoon-swollen river.

DELPHI, Ind. - Carroll County has obtained a grant to install flood warning sirens along the Tippecanoe River, thanks to the help of an American Indian tribe that applied to the federal government for the ...

A large swathe of the already desperately poor state of Bihar is likely to remain under water for several months, leaving authorities coping with at least a million people who have lost everything, officials ...

In this aerial view an Indian Air Force helicopter casts a shadow over floodwaters near the submerged village of Kumarkhad in Madhubani district, some 320km north-east of Patna yesterday.

Sep 3 - Hundreds of thousands of people are fleeing the flood devastated areas of Bihar in India after losing their homes and loved ones.

Tropical Storm Hanna drenched flood-plagued Haiti on Wednesday, adding to the miseries of a country that has lost more than 100 lives to mudslides and flooding since mid-August.

The storm is still expected to change course, sweep across the Bahamas and then start climbing along the U.S. coastline by the weekend, according to the U.S. National Hurricane Center in Miami _ with some chance it could bring tropical storm force winds to New York City.

Haitian authorities on Wednesday reported two more deaths caused by Hanna, raising the toll to 23.

A blame game after the unprecedented floods in Bihar came to the fore with the state government being accused by the Centre of not sending a scheme for works to be executed on the damaged dams on the Nepal ...

India Gazette Tuesday 2nd September, 2008 The flood situation in Assam continued to be critical Tuesday with an estimated one million people displaced and 15 dead, even as army soldiers were engaged in a ...

Recent flooding on an American Indian reservation in the Grand Canyon has renewed talks of an alert system that could help tourists and residents evacuate more quickly during floods.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday all but killed a federal plan nearly seven decades in the making to build the world's largest water pump in the Mississippi Delta.

Up to half a million people are still stranded by flood waters in the Indian state of Bihar, aid workers say.

NEW DELHI : Half a million victims remain stranded after last week's floods in northern India destroyed hundreds of rural villages.

DISTRAUGHT and destitute, countless numbers of poor Indian villagers are slowly wading out of their flood-hit region in a desperate search for food and drinking water.

In the two weeks since a monsoon-swollen river burst its banks, ancient prejudices have run just as deep as the floodwaters. India's 'untouchables' are the last to be rescued _ if at all _ from a deluge that has killed dozens and made 1.2 million homeless.

Dalits, the social outcasts at the bottom of the Hindu caste ladder, have borne the brunt of the devastation as the rampaging Kosi River swamped hundreds of square miles in northern India after it overflowed and shifted its course dozens of miles to the east.

To intensify the ongoing rescue work in Bihar's flood affected areas, the Army on Monday rushed 16 additional columns comprising about 2,000 men to join the relief efforts.

PATNA, India (Reuters) - The Indian army and navy stepped up efforts on Monday to rescue hundreds of thousands of people marooned by floods and facing severe shortages of food in the east of the country.

Some villagers have been living on rooftops for days, while others are eating plants and leaves after exhausting food stocks. Aid agencies said the government of the impoverished state of Bihar should have done more to anticipate the disaster and plan relief operations in a region hit by monsoon flooding every year.

In the region where Hurricane Rita swamped the flat marshland and homes with several feet of water three years ago, few people waited around for Hurricane Gustav or even the mandatory evacuation that began at 6 ...

Oil rose nearly $2 to over $117 on Monday as U.S. energy companies raced to shut down offshore oil production and flood-prone refineries in the Gulf Coast ahead of Hurricane Gustav, which is evoking memories of ...