The Lee fire became the fourth-largest wildfire in state history as updated infrared estimates increased its acreage total ...

Around five million years ago, Earth may have witnessed the largest flood in recorded history. This flood, according to recent geological studies, rapidly transformed a dry and salty basin into ...

Flash flood warnings were issued Sunday near the Lee Fire in western Colorado, and local authorities have reported mudslides ...

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara.

The most destructive river flood in U.S. history, the 1927 event moved about 2 million cubic feet (65,000 cubic meters) of water—enough to fill about 26 Olympic-size swimming pools—every second.

The death toll, as of Monday at 5:20 p.m., of 104 fatalities, makes the Central Texas flash floods on July 4 the second-deadliest flood disaster in Texas history.

Scientists reveal new details about the 5.3-million-year-old flood, which triggered earthquakes, generated tropical-storm force winds, and created a waterfall 30 times taller than Niagara.