The 2011 Missouri River flood prompted new protocols for dam management. In Europe, repeated Danube and Rhine floods have driven the construction of high-tech barriers and the restoration of ...

The Rhine River, Europe’s busiest inland waterway, was shut to barges upstream of Koblenz in Germany as water levels along some parts of the river rose to the highest in at least seven years ...

Germany is trying to save the Rhine. “Save,” in this case, means keep the river navigable for cargo ships. Naturally, engineers have been dispatched to find a way to make the waterway more ...

Improving flood protection on the Rhine river. Over 26 km of the river, before it meets Lake Constance on the border between Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the plan is to create more space for ...

The river had been closed to freight shipping over the weekend after heavy rain caused extensive flooding in south Germany, stopping sailings to Switzerland. Sign up here.

The Rhine is the most important river in Western Europe. It runs through a German industrial region, among other places, and more than 300 million tons of goods are supposed to move on its waters ...

E&E News notes that flood insurance costs an average of about $1,000 a year through FEMA. The median household income in Knott County is $32,500, or half the nationwide median of $65,000 ...

If rivers overflow their banks, the consequences can be devastating -- just like the catastrophic floods in North Rhine-Westphalia and Rhineland-Palatinate of 2021 showed. In order to limit flood ...

The German inland navigation agency announced that Rhine river shipping around Maxau, ... Heavy rains in southern Germany caused flooding that closed the river to all freight traffic at Maxau on ...

In Germany, as a result of the flooding of the Rhine River, life in Cologne, Bonn, Dusseldorf was paralyzed, Azernews reports, ci ...

Parts of the river Rhine in south Germany were still closed to cargo shipping on Wednesday after heavy rain in the region increased water levels, navigation authorities said.

Improving flood protection on the Rhine river. Over 26 km of the river, before it meets Lake Constance on the border between Germany, Austria and Switzerland, the plan is to create more space for ...