A team led by researchers at the University of Oxford has created the most complete map of the world's rivers ever made, ...

Before the Flood' is meant as a clarion call for viewers to change the world Global warming is an objectively ... so it’s a special achievement that DiCaprio’s film manages to evade that ...

By Georg Szalai Global Business Editor Locarno is getting ready for a flood – in more than one sense! The 77th edition of the Locarno Film Festival is promising a veritable flood of arthouse movies.

The study didn’t account for flood defenses such as dikes, levees, dams and drainage systems. One reason, Dr. Rentschler said, is that there isn’t a good global inventory of such structures.

The authors combined a record of flood events with daily satellite observations to develop the Global Flood Database — a resource that stores the footprint of 913 large floods that occurred ...