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The floods

How the climate emergency is changing Europe

  • Maureen Gilbert with her parents

    The tragic death of Maureen Gilbert: why did a much-loved mother die in her flooded home?

    Last year, Storm Babet tore through Chesterfield in Derbyshire, an at-risk town that had been hit before. Could the devastation have been avoided?
  • A worker clears debris outside a guesthouse near Altenahr in July 2021.

    The German valley that was swept away: ‘The cemeteries gave up their dead’

    When the Ahr River burst its banks in 2021, 188 people died and whole villages and towns were destroyed. Could it all happen again?
  • Rosa Reichel

    The life and death of Rosa Reichel: the brilliant girl who was swept away

    She was just 15 and her friends couldn’t save her from the rising waters. For her family and everyone in this flooded region of Belgium, nothing will ever be the same again
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