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By all accounts, forecasters provided adequate warning — the problem was communicating the danger to residents.
The Trump administration has paused work on a new database that would provide Americans with precise estimates of the ...
In late September 2000, longtime Kerr County, Texas, resident W. Thornton Secor Jr. sat down with an oral historian to tell his story. Like many of the residents recorded as part of a decadeslong ...
Hundreds of acres of roofs and parking lots will prevent the land from soaking up rainwater, writes hydrology professor. DEIS ...
The State Flood Plan, published last year, identified $54 billion in flood mitigation, warning and data needs. The state has ...
FEMA flood maps are essential tools for identifying flood risks, but they have significant coverage gaps, and politics can ...
This sort of flash flooding might just be the new normal, if you can use such a term to describe the phase we’re experiencing ...
Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said the deadly flooding in Kerr County over July Fourth weekend was not caused ...
The first State Flood Plan, published last year, identified $54 billion in flood mitigation, warning and data needs. The ...
From 2022 to 2023, insurance premiums in Texas increased by 23%, marking the highest rise in the nation in that timespan.
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha sued the Trump administration on July 16 to stop the termination of a multibillion-dollar grant program aimed at protecting communities against natural ...
Clear-cutting can make catastrophic floods 18 times more frequent with effects lasting more than 40 years, according to a new UBC study.