Atmospheric rivers (ARs) are long, narrow bands of intense water vapor transport that move large amounts of moisture from low ...

KURASHIKI, Japan —Hopes of finding survivors were fading on Tuesday as rescue workers carried out house-to-house searches after days of deadly floods and landslides that have claimed 156 lives in ...

Japan has spent decades fighting water with some of the most extreme flood defenses ever built, from vast underground reservoirs beneath Tokyo to giant seawalls stretching across its northeastern ...

Authorities in Japan on Saturday evening braced for the risk of landslides and floods as Shanshan, a tropical cyclone, continued its slow advance back inland, after drenching parts of the country with ...