Extreme weather seems to make the headlines almost every week, as disasters increasingly strike out of season, break records, and hit places they never have before. Decades of scientific research has ...

A new study published in Nature Communications looked at what happens when climate change and toxic pollution intersect.

COATESVILLE, Pa. — For Alicia Milbourne, a new urgency and anxiety are sweeping through her neighborhood. “They’re scared,” she said. “There are sandbags. We got sandbags and everything ready.” The ...

The report cites rising flood and hurricane risks as well as economic strain as major challenges for the city.

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 ...

El Portal and Miami Shores El Portal told the Herald it does not collect resident flood reports, despite “chronic flooding.” ...

Federal flood maps for New Hampshire — which determine, among other things, cost and availability of flood insurance — are being upgraded. That makes sense because scientific models of possible ...

As national attention remains focused on the terrible flooding that killed more than 130 in the Texas Hill Country, people are asking plenty of questions about the role of emergency response and ...

Louisville, Tenn. — When a big storm hits, Peninsula Hospital could be underwater. At this decades-old psychiatric hospital on the edge of the Tennessee River, an intense storm could submerge the ...

Extreme flooding has led to a significant reduction in one of the world's most important food staples, according to new ...