In 1981, Sandra Day O'Connor received a unanimous vote in the Senate to become the first female member of the U.S. Supreme ...

The World Meteorological Organization warns the globe is on track to bring about widespread climate catastrophe by the end of ...

People may be compelled to inhabit steeper, riskier terrains as urban expansion, climate change, and flood risks at lower ...

The torrential rains have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands more across the region this year.

At least 621 people have been killed and thousands more displaced by floods around Lake Chad, which sits at the border region ...

Niger's government says heavy rains and flooding have forced the start of the new school year to be delayed by nearly a month.

Nigerian farmer Enoch Fater has barely slept in the last few days after water levels started rising at his paddy rice farm ...

Schools in Niger will start the new academic year almost a month late because of heavy rainfall and flooding, says the ...

As torrential rains across Central and West Africa have unleashed the most catastrophic floods in decades, residents of ...

The answer is found on the other side of the Atlantic, where the Sahara Desert just had weeks of unprecedented rainfall.

Floods have killed more than 1,000 people and displaced hundreds of thousands in the region, worsening existing humanitarian crises.

Unprecendented flooding in Nigeria, Cameroon, Niger, Chad, Mali, Ghana and Liberia has triggered humanitarian crises. An ...