Residents are calling for urgent work to be carried out on their road after repeated flooding. A wall on Sewell's Walk in ...

Schoolchildren have been planting hedges as part of a Hull flood defence scheme. Pupils from Appleton Primary School installed the shrubs along the banks of the Setting Dyke waterway on Tuesday.

The government is committed to permanently ending perennial flooding in Budalang'i, Busia County, President William Ruto has said.

For years, the soils washed away from the heavily degraded Shire Highlands have buried rivers in Nsanje and Chikwawa in silt.

President William Ruto and Deputy President Kithure Kindiki, on the third day of their Western Kenya development tour, reaffirmed the government's commitment to completing key projects worth billions ...

She said: "The dyke is just not designed for the amount ... it had been "working throughout the day and night to manage the flood risk caused by the heavy rainfall and snowfall".

Flood barrier - An earthen embankment (known as a berm or a dyke), flood wall, or a temporary wall constructed of sand bags or other materials built to provide protection from floods. Flood hazard ...

James Dyke writes a regular environmental column for i. He is an Associate Professor in Earth System Science at Exeter University. His book Fire, Storm and Flood: the Violence of Climate Change is out ...