Keen gardeners are being warned by a major insurer to consider subsidence risks when planting trees and shrubs near their home. Research conducted for Aviva suggests that around a third (33%) of people with some outside space across the UK are expecting
The extent of devastating floods in northern Italy has been laid bare in shocking aerial footage. Exceptional rains on Wednesday in a drought-struck region of northern Italy swelled rivers over their banks has killed at least nine people and forced the evacuation
Three people died after heavy rains in northern Italy burst riverbanks and caused devastating floods. The mayor of the city of Cesena, in the Emilia-Romagna region, Enzo Lattuca, posted a video early Wednesday on Facebook to warn that continued heavy rains in
New Zealand police announced Wednesday that they found the body of a high-school student in a cave system after a school group encountered difficulty when floodwaters hit. The student death has raised questions about why school officials continued with the trip after
Homes have been evacuated in parts of South West England after torrential rain caused flash-flooding, mudslides and landslips. The Environment Agency has issued multiple red ‘act now’ flood warnings, with rail services also disrupted. The heavy rain swept in from the west
Heavy rains in southwestern Germany have flooded roads and basements, forced train routes to close temporarily and left some residents trapped in their homes. In Zollernalbkreis county in the state of Baden-Wuerttemberg, hundreds of firefighters were on duty late Sunday after thunderstorms
Torrential rains caused flooding in western and northern Rwanda, killing at least 129 people, a public broadcaster said Wednesday. The death toll “continues to rise,” the Rwanda Broadcasting Agency said Wednesday. “This could be the highest disaster-induced death toll to be recorded
The Met Office has issued a yellow weather warning for thunderstorms across some parts of the UK. The forecaster has issued the warning across Northern Ireland and southern Scotland from midday to 9 pm on Sunday. Predictions show “heavy showers and thunderstorms”
Heavy rains have triggered flash flooding in northern and western Iran, killing at least two people, Iranian state television reported Thursday. According to Pirhossein Koulivand, the head of the country’s emergency services, one fatality was reported in Qazvin province and the other
A week of floods has displaced thousands of families in a part of western Burundi where a river separates the country from the Democratic Republic of the Congo, a local official said Wednesday. More than 4,000 families living in the village of