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As the tail end of Storm Boris hit Italy’s northeast and central regions — including the Emilia-Romagna region in the north — two people were missing, with roughly 1,000 others having been evacuated following devastating floods and landslides. This just days after causing deadly widespread floods across central Europe. “The population is on high alert,” […]

A new tool from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) maps properties that experience repeated flooding around the U.S. NRDC found more than 250,000 properties in the country have made multiple insurance claims under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP). The tool and report, called Flooded Again, maps out areas with the highest repetitive loss […]

Flooding from Austria to Romania has killed at least 17 people, with thousands evacuated after days of torrential rain caused rivers to overflow their banks. Downpours from low-pressure system Storm Boris led to some of the most serious flooding in almost three decades across Central and Eastern Europe. Austria, Hungary, Poland and the Czech Republic […]

Tropical Storm Francine strengthened into a Category 1 hurricane as it moved through the Gulf of Mexico Tuesday night, with maximum sustained winds of 85 miles per hour and gusts of up to 101 mph recorded by an oil platform Wednesday morning, the National Hurricane Center said. The storm prompted Louisiana residents to move inland, […]

Typhoon Shanshan made landfall in southwest Japan on Thursday with strong winds and heavy rain, killing at least four people and injuring 94 or more, reported BBC News. Millions were told to evacuate as Shanshan — downgraded Thursday evening to a “severe tropical storm” — knocked out electricity for 237,000-plus households, forced the closure of […]

In an extreme flooding event across eight districts in Bangladesh, roughly three million people have been left stranded. According to Bangladeshi newspaper The Daily Star, locals reported not having seen such severe flooding in 37 years. “I haven’t seen so much water in the last 20 years. Everything in my house is wrecked because the […]

A heat dome over Texas and the southwestern United States is baking more than 23 million people with some of the summer’s hottest temperatures, leading to heat advisories and warnings, Heat.gov said. Extreme temperatures were predicted to continue through the end of the week with record or near-record temperatures in some parts of New Mexico, […]

Hurricane Ernesto left about a third of Puerto Rico’s residents without power on Thursday as it strengthened to become a Category 1 hurricane and barreled toward Bermuda, bringing heavy rain, strong winds and dangerous storm surge. On Thursday morning, the storm was approximately 600 miles from Bermuda and crawling toward the island at about 13.8 […]