Europe faced its most widespread flooding in over a decade last year, scientists said on Tuesday, as climate change continues to prompt extreme weather globally. Deadly floods and storms in 2024 ...

New research reveals atmospheric signals that appear before deadly flash floods, helping forecasters detect extreme rainfall events sooner.

From Central Europe to the Caucusus to Central Asia and Afghanistan, 2024 saw extreme flooding across many of the countries in RFE/RL's region. We look back at the environmental and human impact and ...

Last year was the hottest year on record for Europe, with record-high annual temperatures in almost half of the continent. The latest European State of the Climate report from the EU’s Copernicus ...

Storm Leonardo delivered devastating rainfalls to the Iberian Peninsula, escalating flood warnings. This led to fatalities and damages, as Spain and Portugal wrestle with climate change-induced ...

In 2024, catastrophic floods occurred in the cities of Porto Alegre, Brazil, and Valencia, Spain. These two record floods number among the thousands of extreme weather events that saw records for ...

Global water supplies are becoming less reliable, leading to dangerous floods, droughts and threats to agriculture, the United Nation’s weather agency said in a new report. A record hot year driven by ...

Europe faced its most widespread flooding last year since 2013, with 30% of the continent's river network hit by significant floods, scientists said on Tuesday, as fossil fuel-driven climate change ...