FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) — Firefighters and volunteers worked to reinforce dikes against rising floodwaters in northern and eastern Germany as heavy rains falling on already soaked ground pushed rivers ...

Updates from CBC reporters in the field Assiniboine River crests in Brandon, dikes hold Stephen Harper tours flood-threatened areas of Manitoba He said the water coming from Saskatchewan has crested ...

Shirley and Ron Klassen had never before shied away from floods at their small hobby farm in Arnold, B.C. But on Nov. 15, as firetrucks ripped through the town, and the Klassens watched the water rise ...

With their dense mats of submerged roots, mangrove forests hold down shorelines worldwide like a coastal Swiss Army knife. They’re a nursery for juvenile fish and a home for important species in and ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has certified the dike systems in Grand Forks and northern East Grand Forks as functionally complete, the start of a process that would allow property owners to ...

Bob Rutherglen has been watching the waters along British Columbia’s Duhamel Creek creep higher and higher this spring. His property in Six Mile, northeast of Nelson, was among 164 placed on an ...

Dikes are indispensable for bees, especially if they are home to many different plant and flower species. A large census conducted on 157 dikes along rivers in the Netherlands revealed that more and ...

‘We need to fix this river” is the sentiment that seems to work its way to center stage at most gatherings of recently flooded residents. It may not be the first statement, but it seeps out, usually ...

ENTIAT, Chelan County — Work began this week to remove two dikes that have held back the Entiat River for nearly 70 years at the Entiat National Fish Hatchery. Heavy equipment labored to dig and haul ...