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A strong tornado hit Guangzhou on Saturday afternoon, killing five people and injuring 33, as severe rain and a hailstorm battered the Guangdong provincial capital. Authorities said the tornado was [...]

Record-breaking flooding in Guangdong province since Friday has killed at least four and disrupted the lives of some 110,000 people living along a major river. Three people died during heavy [...]

Guangdong residents are on high alert for flooding, with authorities forecasting water flows in a major river to hit “once-in-100-year” levels this morning. The provincial flood and ­disaster prevention department [...]

Parts of southern China continued to be battered by heavy downpours over the weekend, with rainstorm and flood alerts issued for a second straight day. The Bei, a tributary of [...]

Shenzhen resident Autumn Fang spent nearly two days at home without water or power in September when Typhoon Saola lashed southern China with record rainstorms. Near her home, people were [...]

A businessman has lost an estimated HK$550,000 after his claw machine store was wrecked by what the government called a “once-in-500 years” rainstorm. Choi Kai-yip said yesterday he was devastated [...]

President Xi Jinping has visited flood-affected areas in northeastern Heilongjiang province where he inspected damaged homes and crops, according to state media reports. Xi’s visit to Shangzhi city came a [...]

Flooding in the southwestern city of Chongqing has killed at least 15 people and displaced thousands more as President Xi Jinping warned that all seven of the ­country’s major rivers [...]

The country’s south was on alert for landslides and floods over the weekend as heavy rain continued to inundate Guangdong and Hainan provinces and the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region. The [...]

More than 10,000 people have been forced to leave their homes as a result of heavy rains that have swept across eastern China since Wednesday. In total, nearly 300,000 people [...]

Flooding in the Yellow River became 10 times more frequent in the last 1,000 years than in several previous millennia, and it cannot be blamed on climate change, a new [...]

More than 1 million people in China are at risk from glacial lake outburst floods that occur when water is suddenly released from a lake fed by glacier melt, according [...]

The floods that ravaged southern China in May were the fifth-worst natural global catastrophe last year, but only a fraction of the losses were insured, revealing a huge insurance gap [...]

Our brush this week with Typhoon Ma-On should remind us of a ­dangerously neglected reality: Hong Kong is among the world’s most ­vulnerable cities to climate change and rising sea [...]

China endured around US$25 billion of losses from floods – the world’s second worst after Europe – last year, but only a tenth was insured, according to the Swiss Re [...]

An abrupt drop in airborne pollutants was a major cause of eastern China’s extreme summer rainfall in 2020, which killed more than 150 and affected 55 million people, according to [...]

Workers building what would be the world’s longest tunnel have come up against an unexpected problem in one of the driest areas on Earth – gushing water. That is according [...]

From more intense floods in central China to rising threats from heatwaves and disease-carrying mosquitoes in the south - the ­impact of climate change on health is increasing across China, [...]

Apple has joined the list of tech companies pledging donations for flood relief efforts in Shanxi province, where heavy rains ­earlier this month left 15 people killed and 19,000 buildings [...]

At least five people are dead and 120,000 people displaced after days of heavy downpours led to floods and landslides in the ­northern province of Shanxi. The largely arid province [...]

Premier Li Keqiang has said an ­investigation into last month's devastating floods in Henan ­province that killed 302 people must give a proper account of what happened. On Wednesday afternoon, [...]

The fear was still visible in the eyes of Zhao Runtao as he recalled how close a dam just outside Zhengzhou city came to collapsing ­during the recent disastrous floods [...]

The spread of the highly infectious Delta variant of Covid-19 has shown no sign of slowing down on the mainalnd with a case emerging in flood-hit Zhengzhou. The National Health [...]

The deadly floods in Henan ­province resulted in direct economic losses of 2.25 ­billion yuan (HK$2.7 billion) for China's ­poultry and livestock ­industries after 248,000 pigs and 6.4 million chickens [...]

The hostility towards foreign ­journalists in China reporting on the recent floods in Henan is the result of years of ­rising nationalist sentiment and reflects the authorities openly sanctioning the [...]

Deadly floods in Henan province will have an inevitable impact on the supply of non-ferrous metals, with lead and aluminium the most severely hit, according to analysts. The flooding, described [...]

Flights and rail services were ­cancelled in several coastal cities yesterday as ­the arrival of ­Typhoon In-fa ­threatened to add to the devastation caused by flooding that has already claimed [...]

Billionaire Richard Li Tzar-kai has donated 10 million yuan (HK$12 million) to help Henan after the central mainland province was devastated by heavy rains and flooding, making him the latest [...]

As the mainland redoubles efforts to help the central province of ­Henan recover from floods that have left at least 56 dead, the ­typhoon that largely contributed to the deluge [...]

Mainland technology platforms are turning into a powerful lifeline for people seeking help in flood-battered Henan province. One of the platforms gaining the most attention is Tencent Docs, the social [...]

Flooding in southwestern China has displaced thousands of ­people after days of heavy rain - and more downpours could be on the way, authorities have warned. Across Sichuan province, storms [...]

Byline: Will Clem in Shanghai william.clem@scmp.com Torrential rains have pounded much of the drought-plagued regions along the Yangtze River in the past few days, bringing much-needed relief but also raising [...]

Byline: Keith Wallis Hong Kong shipowners appear to have escaped any direct impact from the flooding which has disrupted coal exports from Queensland in eastern Australia, although they could feel [...]

Byline: Stephen Chen The Yangtze River's banks downstream from the Three Gorges Dam are eroding too fast, and scientists say the culprit is clean water. That's right - the water [...]

Byline: Alice Yan The tropical island province of Hainan has been hit by its worst flooding in half a century, with seven days of heavy rain bringing up to a [...]

Byline: Will Clem in Shanghai The controversial Three Gorges Dam met its toughest test yesterday - and cleared the first hurdle. When peak floodwaters hit at about 8am, a record [...]

Byline: Will Clem in Shanghai Floods are poised to hit the central mainland cities of Changsha in Hunan and Wuhan in Hubei as waters in major rivers continue to swell [...]

Byline: Mandy Zuo The mainland is entering a key phase of its battle against flooding as torrential rain continues to plague southern provinces and the first typhoon of the summer [...]

Byline: Mandy Zuo Rainstorms continue to batter many mainland provinces and regions, bringing massive threats of flooding in central and southern parts of the mainland. Torrential downpours in the Yangtze [...]

Byline: Will Clem in Shanghai Temperatures continued to plunge across much of the mainland yesterday, heightening the risk of mass flooding with the eventual thaw. The Yellow River was frozen [...]