Many people living in the Himalayas, Andes, Alps, Rocky Mountains, Iceland, and Alaska have experienced glacial lake outburst floods of one type or another.

In mountain ranges around the world, glaciers are melting as global temperatures rise. Europe’s Alps and Pyrenees lost 40 per ...

North Queensland has been lashed with rain again overnight with some parts of the region copping more than 340mm.

Juneau, Alaska, has been hit by several flash floods in recent years from a glacial lake ... debris and sediment that plummeted into Langmale glacial lake below, resulting in a massive flood. These ...

Authorities in Missouri say 11 people died there, with three others reported dead in Arkansas, and a further three in Texas.

9:30 a.m.: Gov. Tate Reeves posted an update Saturday morning on the social media site X, with news from Friday storms. The ...

Los Angeles residents are bracing for extreme rain, with some under evacuation orders, just two months after massive wildfires devastated neighbourhoods now at risk of mudslides, flash flooding ...

Los Angeles County is under an updated flash flood warning which was issued by the National Weather Service on Thursday at 2:32 a.m. The warning is in effect until 5 a.m. “At 2:32 a.m., Doppler ...

"Residents should prepare to evacuate now due to the significant risk of flash flooding, debris flows and mudslides," the city's office of public safety said in a statement on social media.

Areas scorched by wildfires are vulnerable to flash floods and debris flows as the land cannot absorb rainfall, and extreme wildfire heat can even create a kind of water-repellent soil layer ...