The story of Spain's Picaña and Paiporta is a testament to both human resilience and the pressing need for action.

In a matter of minutes, flash floods caused by heavy downpours in eastern Spain swept away almost everything in their path. With no time to react, people were trapped in vehicles, homes and businesses ...

"All these plants, I grew them from seeds," said Al Shala outside his Lehigh County home. It's safe to say the 86-year old's relationship with cacti is anything but prickly. "I used to have 500 of ...

Some see the floods as an example of the effect of a changing climate that is making overwhelming downpours more common.

"Entire houses have disappeared," says a local mayor in Spain's flood-battered Valencia region. "We don't know if there were ...

Inside some of the vehicles that the water washed into piles or crashed into buildings, there were still bodies waiting to be ...

Other images, which Business Insider geolocated and compared with images from Google Street View, show how the rainfall badly ...

Flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at least 95 ...

Flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at least 95 ...

UTIEL, Spain— Flash floods in Spain turned village streets into rivers, ruined homes, disrupted transportation and killed at ...

Emergency services in Valencia said Wednesday that at least 70 people have died in the region due to the floods. Another two ...