Low water levels after recent dry weather are preventing cargo vessels from sailing fully loaded on the Rhine river in Germany with surcharges added to the usual freight rates, commodity traders said ...

Rescuers are desperately searching for survivors more than two days after a powerful 7.7-magnitude earthquake struck Myanmar, ...

Saul Luciano Lliuya grows corn, potatoes and quinoa. In winter, he takes tourists up to the icy heights of the Peruvian Andes.   Now the farmer from the mountain village of Huaraz is in the global ...

Since cut-off lows can linger for days, they often dump extreme amounts of rain over one area, overwhelming flood defenses. Recent disasters, like the 2021 floods in Germany's Ahr Valley and last year ...

Image: Friedrich Merz is Germany's incoming leader. Pic: Reuters Some €500bn (£418m) will also be freed up to improve roads, schools, bridges and other infrastructure but will also pay for ...

it could trigger a flood in the valleyImage: Walter Tapia Hupiu/Germanwatch e.V. Only recently, an avalanche of debris filled the lake to the brim, says Lliuya. A 2021 study published in the ...

BERLIN — Germany’s armed forces are in trouble just when Europe needs them most. Germany’s military, or Bundeswehr, is shrinking, aging and still lacks essential equipment despite a considerable ...

Over the next week, tens of millions of Americans will be at risk of severe weather as a colossal storm marches across the country, threatening hurricane-force winds, major flooding, blizzard ...

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Yellow Level 2 severe thunderstorms leading to flooding are expected in parts of the North West, the Free State, Gauteng and Limpopo, according to the South African Weather Service. Yellow Level 4 ...

More than 52,000 reservoirs have been built on the Yangtze and its tributaries since the 1950s to mitigate flooding, generate hydropower, stabilize water supplies and protect ecology. There are a ...

Officials said they expect to issue a flood watch alert from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 6 p.m. Thursday. There is a possibility of heavier showers and thunderstorms hitting the southwest-facing mountains ...