Floods

Lightweight aluminum flood barriers for homes and businesses.

Flood fighting and erosion control barriers for emergency management, construction and landscape protection applications.

Flood barrier to protect houses and buildings on riversides. Up to 2 meters in height and unlimited length. Netherlands.

Free and premium software designed to predict economic and environmental damage. Provides product information.

The German government, keen not to be seen as tight-fisted in an election year, promises a generous response to patch up flood damage.

Priceless works of art and historic cultural landmarks appear to have been saved from the devastating floods in Prague and Dresden.

An elephant and a hippopotamus are dead and a gorilla is missing after flood waters swamped Prague's zoo.

Flooding in Europe looks set seriously to disrupt the Czech Republic's economy, forcing the government to borrow more.

BBC journalist Michal Ruzicka and his family were among those evacuated from the Karlin district of Prague, along with thousands of others.

As water levels start to recede, Prague surveys the damage inflicted by the worst floods in the Czech capital for 200 years.

Some people returned home as flood waters in Prague receded, but many areas of the historic city remained off-limits after the worst flooding in 200 years.