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The European Union tsar in charge of the bloc’s 2050 net zero push has called to implement a national commemoration day for those allegedly killed by the “climate crisis”.

The Environment Agency is taking legal action against a farmer who removed trees and bushes on a bank and dredged a river bed with a digger.

Parts of Nantucket, a small island off Cape Cod, Massachusetts, saw intense flooding as Winter Storm Keenan wreaked havoc on the northeast on Friday night and through Saturday, bringing heavy snowfall and high-speed winds, which resulted in power outages.

Chinese Communist Party officials in China’s Henan province “either concealed or delayed” the documentation of 139 deaths from floods that devastated the east-central region in July 2021, Bloomberg reported Sunday.

A Washington man and his coworkers used tractors to rescue people stranded in raging floodwaters after historic rains caused intense flooding in the town of Sumas in Whatcom County.

Country music star Dolly Parton and her businesses have raised $700,000 to help victims of the recent flooding in central Tennessee.

Tropical Storm Nicholas is set to be a major rainfall flood threat Monday night on the Texas and Louisiana coasts, bringing wind gusts and a storm surge.

A mother is extremely grateful to her legally blind son who took action when their basement apartment in Queens began flooding due to Hurricane Ida.

The death toll due to Hurricane Ida reportedly reached at least four following a highway collapse in Mississippi while millions had no power and flooding continued to be a threat Tuesday, according to USA Today. 

It has been over a week since more than 17 inches of rain swept through Humphreys County, Tennessee, taking the lives of 20 residents and hurting many more.

A helicopter pilot from Nashville, Tennessee, named Joel Boyers had finished helping his fiancé get her own pilot’s license Saturday when the unexpected happened.

While looking out his kitchen window, 90 year old Buddy McNabb and his three pet dogs watched as water rose around his mobile home, Faithwire reported Tuesday.

German authorities said rescue teams are still searching for two people who were swept off a bridge by sudden floods the previous day.

Just a few weeks after they scrambled to score cheap political points against American disaster response from the condo collapse in Miami, Chinese state media organs are grudgingly admitting the deadly floods in Henan province show their government did a poor job of infrastructure planning and construction.

The mayor of the Belgian municipality of Esneux has called on the country’s armed forces for help after a wave of looting following the large-scale flooding that has rocked the country.

Germany’s national weather service said Thursday that regions hit by deadly floods last week could again see heavy rain at the weekend.

Officials are defending their preparations for flooding in the face of the raging torrents that left over 180 people dead in Western Europe.

BERLIN (AP) – The death toll from flooding in Western Europe climbed above 180 on Sunday after rescue workers dug deeper into debris left by receding waters.

At least 100 people have died in devastating floods across parts of western Germany and Belgium, officials said Friday.

BERLIN (AP) – More than 30 people have died and dozens of people were missing Thursday in Germany and neighbouring Belgium after heavy flooding turned streams and streets into raging torrents, sweeping away cars and causing buildings to collapse.

Flooding in southwest China’s Sichuan province in recent days displaced about 110,000 people as of Sunday, Chinese government officials said.

A state trooper, police sergeant, and a couple are being praised for saving a woman who found herself stranded in her truck during a flood in Columbia, Connecticut.

Tornadoes and severe thunderstorms ripped through central Mississippi, causing widespread damage to the area, according to videos and photos of the incident.

Nashville, Tennessee, Mayor John Cooper declared a state of emergency Sunday afternoon after flooding that killed four residents.

With record flooding through southeastern Australia, all manner of creatures are invading neighborhoods as they flee the rising water.

China’s Minister of Agriculture Tang Renjian told journalists in a press conference Monday that the nation’s grain supplies “at times come under pressure” and Beijing needs to act to “stabilize” its food supply.

An Arizona man inspired to do good went to Texas, which has been storm-ravaged in recent days, to repair water-damaged homes.

A North Carolina news crew experienced a close call on Thursday when a bridge they were standing on collapsed from heavy flooding.

Flood victims in the Kenyan region of Tana River County will receive a beating before their rescue in future calamities as they have ignored the government’s safety instructions, the regional governor, Dhahdo Godhana, warned on Monday.

Hurricane Sally has been downgraded to a tropical storm, but it is battering the Gulf Coast with high winds and torrential rain, making it still a “catastrophic and life-threatening” flood event, according to the National Hurricane Center.

Venezuelans in the city of Maracay must sleep on the street, with socialist officials failing to provide shelter after devastating flooding led to hundreds of people losing their homes last week, NTN24 reported Monday.

Panicked locals in towns on the banks of the Rio Limón in Aragua state, Venezuela, fled for their lives as the river overflowed on Wednesday, flooding entire highways and sweeping away anything in its path.

China’s official manufacturing data, released on Monday, showed a decline in manufacturing linked to widespread flooding in August.

A natural gas pipeline exploded in China’s north-central city of Yulin on Wednesday. Authorities blame the blast on recent flooding in the region and have issued a warning to area citizens to expect more heavy rains in the coming days.

Australia’s Spectator revealed on Thursday that police received nearly 100 corruption complaints during the construction of the world’s largest hydroelectric dam, the Three Gorges Dam, currently straining under the pressure of once-in-a-century floods.

Torrential rains in China continued this week, threatening even worse floods after almost 24 million people have been impacted by 433 overflowing rivers, with millions evacuated and at least 142 dead as of Tuesday.