Flood

Heavy rainfall in the last 24 hours has triggered flash floods and floods in 34 areas in the counties of Bacau, Bihor, Bistrita-Nasaud, Cluj, Constanta, Galati, Hunedoara, Iasi, Maramures, Neamt, Salaj, and Suceava.

"Doggerland," a territory that occupies the southern part of the North Sea and connects the UK with mainland Europe, scientists called open remains of ancient civilization.
British scientists from the University of Bradford have discovered in the North Sea the remains of a massive civilization, reported by Live Science.

Flood prevention works were underway in Mandra, western Attica, where 25 people died in flash flooding in November 2017. Attica Governor Rena Dourou visited the site of the works on Tuesday, which aim to bolster the banks of the Aghia Aikaterini and Soures streams and rebuild a section of highway that was destroyed in 2017. The works are expected to have been completed by summer.

A months-long investigation into the causes of catastrophic floods in Mandra, western Attica, in November 2017, which killed 25, injured 13 and caused massive damage to homes and infrastructure, has pointed to negligence by local and regional authorities, noting that no flood prevention works had been carried out to avert such a disaster.

The search for a 61-year-old livestock farmer who went missing during flooding on Monday in Hania, Crete, resumed at first light on Tuesday.

The father of five has been missing since Monday afternoon, when his car was reportedly swept away in a flash flood in the area of Apokorona as he was driving to check on his animals during a storm.

Search parties on Monday recovered the bodies of four members of a family who had gone missing early Sunday morning when their car was swept away by floodwaters in the Messara region of southern Crete.

Desperately-needed aid flowed into a stretch of Indonesia's tsunami-struck coastline Tuesday, but humanitarian workers warned that clean water and medicine supplies were dwindling as thousands crammed makeshift evacuation centres.

At least 281 people died and more than 1,000 were injured when the waves washed ashore along western Java and southern Sumatra islands Dec. 22 night following a volcanic eruption. Hundreds of homes and other buildings were "heavily damaged" when the tsunami struck, almost without warning. Click through for the photos that show the devastating impact of the tsunami.

Major flash floods like those that hit western Attica in 2017, claiming 23 lives and destroying hundreds of properties, will be the rule and not the exception in coming years, according to a digital simulation model created by a team of experts at the University of Athens.

An expert report aimed at curbing the damage wreaked by flash floods has warned that there are dozens of spots around Greece that could face the same fate as Mandra in western Attica, where 23 people died in flooding last November.