Monsoon floods in India’s Assam state have killed 50 people and displaced 700,000 after the Brahmaputra River overflowed, submerging 872 villages across 16 districts.
The Guadalupe River rose 32 feet in four hours after 20 inches of rain fell across the Texas Hill Country in 48 hours. Two people are dead. More than 40 water rescues have been conducted. Here is what happened and why the Hill Country floods so fast.
A rainfall-induced landslide along the Wujiang River in Chongqing, China, buried residential buildings on July 17, 2026. Eight people are confirmed dead, 34 remain missing, and more than 1,100 residents have been evacuated. China activated a Level-II national emergency response.
The atmosphere is not just warmer now. It is thirstier, and when it drinks its fill, it dumps what it took all at once. Most people think of rain as something that just happens. A storm rolls in, it pours, it passes. But the physics behind rain global warming has rewritten that script. Since the … Read more