The heaviest rain since Ghana began keeping records fell in June 2026 on a city that has drowned in the same streets for sixty-six years.

Chandigarh: Pulling up the Punjab govt for failing to meet its own deadline, the National Green Tribunal (NGT) has noted the absence of a clear timeline for floodplain demarcation along the Satluj, ...

Abstract: Retaining walls play a crucial role in mitigating flood risks, particularly in riverine environments affected by extreme climatic events. This study evaluates the effectiveness of retaining ...

In July 2024, a severe storm brought three months of rain in just 24 hours to the Latvian city of Jelgava. “The rainwater levels were even up to one meter high,” said Mareks Tipa, a local civil ...

ABSTRACT: Watershed management throughout the world has undergone revolutionary changes due to topographic data and the impact of climate change. Research in floodplain inundation mapping reflects ...

When the rain falls or snow melts, the rivers rise. For the engineers who study water, there is no panic—just a quiet team of professionals, carefully studying the flow, ensuring that the water stays ...

The Flood mapping python toolbox (Floodpy) is a free and open-source python toolbox for mapping the non-urban flooded regions. It exploits the dense Sentinel-1 GRD intensity time series using a ...

Abstract: In recent years, rainfall flood disasters have occurred frequently, which bring great threats to the power system, especially distribution substations, causing widespread outages. It is ...