Up to 840,000 people in Austria live in areas at risk of flooding, according to data available to the Ministry of Agriculture, which is available to the APA.

In Austria, heavy and prolonged rainfall has caused the failure of two dams, leading to flooding in several towns, reports ORF. The Lower Austria region has been particularly hard-hit by extreme ...

Austria and Switzerland are planning to invest €2.1 billion into flood protection on the Rhine river. An agreement was signed by both countries in May and has now been unanimously approved by ...

The flooding has swamped parts of Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, and Romania as a low-pressure system crossing the region has unleashed record-high rains for days, and it was expected to ...