Floods, fires and volcanoes
How planting a 'rain garden' could help protect your home from flooding
Flooding is expected to grow more extreme due to climate change. Your garden could be your home's first defence.
Related discussion groups
No group discusses this yet. Start a discussion group and attach this story.
More on Floods, fires and volcanoes
- At least 14 killed and seven injured in landslide at illegal gold mine in ColombiaArmed groups in Narino, an illegal mining hotspot on the border with Ecuador, control the clandestine gold trade as well as trafficking drugs and engaging in extortion.
- Residents clean up as deadly floods devastate eastern SpainResidents of Els Poblets, near Alicante, cleared mud and wrecked furniture on Monday after floods in eastern Spain left at least two people dead.
- As France erupts, Europe's far right gains from fuel-price anger ahead of electionsPARIS/ROME/BERLIN, Oct 20 - The tractors rolling into the town of Gela on the southern tip of Europe are flying the Sicilian flag, emblazoned with Medusa, three bent legs and ears of wheat, a remin...
- City Hall extends flood aid registration period as delays mountThe Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA) has extended the deadline for flood victims to file the paperwork needed for financial assistance for another month, until the end of November.
- Al menos 14 muertos y siete heridos tras un deslizamiento de tierra en una mina de oro en Colombia
- I knew one of us could get hurt eventually. I never thought it would be my friend Helen | Zoe DanielThere will now be a flood of rhetoric about who is to blame. Don’t fall for the political opportunism from left or right. We are all responsibleIt was obvious to those of us who work in and around...