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

The floods that struck last week just before the first anniversary of the January wildfires show how extreme weather is ...

Climate change worsened by human behavior made 2025 one of the three hottest years on record, scientists said.It was also the ...

(The Conversation) – 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 ...

A new study finds that many homeowners face a higher flood risk than they expect. It’s a prospect that raises questions about the accuracy of government flood maps that determine insurance coverage, ...

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic's buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the ...

While a presidentially appointed panel deliberates the fate of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, and as Donald Trump’s administration and Republican lawmakers both call for drastic cuts to the ...

ATLANTA — For most metro Atlanta residents, Hurricane Helene was a temporary inconvenience last September. But in pockets of Georgia, it was a destructive storm that brought flooding, forcing families ...

The Texas Legislature passed a requirement in its special session that children’s cabins at camps are not to be built within the floodplain. But how are floodplains determined? By a group within ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Tropical Storm Chantal flooded Carrboro's Weatherhill Pointe, displacing dozens. FEMA maps excluded the area from high-risk zones, ...

Hurricane Harvey made our vulnerability visible: neighbors rescuing neighbors, photo albums floating in living rooms, bayous surging over their banks. Then came the canyons of sopping drywall, sofas, ...

Just one month after deadly Texas floods claimed more than 130 lives, officials in Fulton County have created new, digital flood maps. Fulton County’s current flood maps were drawn up in the 1980s.