Rescue crews recovered 29 bodies Friday from a raging, rain-fed river that swept a bus carrying members of an evangelical church off a bridge in San Salvador.

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Rescuers fought strong currents in the Sava River in Slovenia Friday as they searched for five people missing after two canoes were crushed running over a dam. Eight people died in the accident.

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Strong Midwestern downpours may force residents to wait even longer to return to homes they evacuated due to fears of flooding, emergency management officials said Thursday.

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Nearly three years after Hurricane Katrina turned FEMA into a punchline, many homeowners and politicians in the flood-stricken Midwest say the agency is doing a heckuva job — and they mean it.

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The inventor of a plastic-based levee protection system took his product to a Missouri town this week, where the competition was also being tested. Msnbc.com’s Mike Stuckey has the story.

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Amid the battle to hold back the swollen Mississippi River, some towns got an unwelcome surprise Saturday as river levels rose higher than projected.

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Droughts will get drier, storms will get stormier and floods will get deeper with warming climate across North America, U.S. government experts said in a report.

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Experts who study the environment suspect that changes in the land, both recently and over the past century or so, have made Iowa’s terrain not only highly profitable but also highly vulnerable to flooding

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