The freak floods have been described as a once-in-25-years occurrence. More heavy rain was due in southwestern Germany, on the upper reaches of the German Rhine, on Thursday and Friday ...

The German chancellor visited southern Germany after numerous streams and rivers burst their banks and flooded entire towns and villages. At least four people have died in the floods. https://p.dw ...

While the situation has now eased in southwestern Germany, water levels remained ... The bodies of four people who died in the floods were found Sunday and Monday, three of them in inundated ...

In southern Germany dams have burst, flooding towns and forcing thousands to evacuate, after days of heavy rainfall. Are floods becoming more severe and how can we better prepare? Communities ...

German Vice Chancellor Robert Habeck, who said Sunday that the floods show reducing planet-warming emissions should be “the top priority,” in March declared that data showed Germany was on ...

Floods have killed at least 89 people in Germany, Russia, Austria and the Czech Republic over the last week, after torrential rains sent a huge surge of water through river systems. At least 10 ...

Storms and flooding across Europe last year affected a total of 413,000 people, led to the loss of at least 335 lives and are estimated to have cost at least €18 billion in damages.

In 2021, at least 185 people died in heavy flooding in Germany. Prior to that, 209 people died in Romania in 1970 and floods in Portugal in 1967 killed nearly 500 people. Rescue teams on Thursday ...