Flooding

While the tale is the stuff of myths, geologists found that at least part of the story is based in reality.

Torrential downpours are becoming more common, and a new analysis warns that trend will continue.

Severe floods in Texas and Oklahoma are causing devastation after multiple storm systems battered a formerly drought-stricken area, according to experts.

A new study has shown that although huge floods are rare in human lifetimes, they are responsible for sculpting the steep mountains in Colorado's semiarid landscape.

Mysterious flooding and high tides along the East Coast in 2009 and 2010 now have an explanation: a major change in the Atlantic Ocean's wind patterns and warm-water currents.

Floods have become more frequent in the central United States in the past 50 years, a new study finds.

New, more precise dates for India's Deccan Traps eruptions could revive the idea that the massive set of lava flows caused the Cretaceous-Tertiary (K-T) extinction.

Iceberg marks found offshore Florida suggest future ice sheet melting may be more complex that previously thought.

Researchers have figured out a new way to predict which rivers are most at risk of dangerous flooding.