Rising water levels are continuing to hit parts of Germany while flooding is causing devastation in nearby countries, with at least 18 deaths reported so far.
After the hottest day recorded this year in Germany, some parts of the country were hit by heavy thunderstorms and flooding on Tuesday night, with more extreme weather due on Wednesday.
Thunderstorms brought severe rain and flooding to parts of Germany on Sunday. The German Weather Service says the country has had its wettest twelve-month period since measurements began.
Homeowners' lack of natural disaster insurance costs Germany billions every time a major flooding event occurs. Policy makers are debating whether insurance companies should be required to offer coverage.
German rescuers handed out food by boat to stranded residents on Tuesday as large parts of southern Germany remained underwater after floods that have now claimed five lives.
Severe rain storms have brought flooding and landslides to southern Germany, disrupting train routes and derailing a passenger train, among other devastating impacts. Here's where trains are currently cancelled.
Southern Germany is still dealing with major flooding. In some places evacuations continued through the night, in others the extent of the damage is finally being seen. Rail traffic is still at a standstill on some lines.
Rescuers battled Monday to evacuate people from floods in southern Germany that have claimed four lives, as Chancellor Olaf Scholz called it a "warning" that climate change was getting worse.
Rescue workers search for missing people, more evacuations and train travel at a standstill. Here's how the flooding situation is developing as southern Germany battles extreme rainfall.
Following Saturday's floods and evacuations in southern Germany, German forecaster DWD again warned of severe thunderstorms and heavy rain for Sunday for much of the region.
Enormous amounts of rain in Saarland and neighbouring Rhineland-Palatinate on Friday and Saturday night caused flooding and landslides, but water levels were slowly retreating on Sunday making the extent of the damage more visible.
German emergency workers were Saturday starting a major clean-up after heavy rains triggered massive flooding in the southwest of the country, while parts of Belgium and the Netherlands were also hit.
More than two and a half years after the deadly flood disaster in the Ahr Valley, western Germany, prosecutors have dropped an investigation into alleged negligence by the local district administrator.
With dryer forecasts ahead, it's good news for Germany's bloated rivers, but the flood situation remains tense in some parts of Lower Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt, in particular.
Germany on Thursday paid tribute to more than 180 people killed in severe floods a year ago, as concerns mount over climate change and the country looks to overhaul its planning for future disasters.
The dramatic floods of July 14th and 15th, 2021 killed more than 220 people in Europe, leaving a trail of destruction in Germany and Belgium, and damage in the Netherlands, Austria and Switzerland. We looked back at the devastating natural disaster.
In Bad Neuenahr-Ahrweiler in western Germany, residents are still waiting for the return of normal life a year after the town was devastated by deadly flash floods - and many feel forgotten by authorities.
Nearly a year ago, pounding rain turned the River Ahr, a tributary of the Rhine in western Germany, into a torrent of water that swept everything before it. For those who survived the deadly flood, life changed dramatically. Here are three of their stories.
German Chancellor Angela Merkel returned Friday to the scene of deadly flooding in the west of the country in a bid to shore up support for her embattled party before this month's national election.
German footballer Kai Havertz said on Wednesday he has raised nearly €400,000 for the victims of western Germany's floods - and revealed he has helped save rescue ponies and donkeys from abattoirs.
