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Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up. By Claire Brown On the heels of devastating flooding in Texas that killed more ...

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Jeremy Porter is a professor of quantitative methods in the social sciences at the City University of New York. Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is ...

When the Federal Emergency Management Agency recently removed the Future Risk Index tool from its website, it not only took away a critical way to quantify the economic impacts of climate change—it ...

The Davis City Council is considering the Village Farms project, which has been met with opposition due to flood risk ...

Deadly and destructive flash flooding in Texas and several other states in July 2025 is raising questions about the nation’s flood maps and their ability to ensure that communities and homeowners can ...