Over the next decade, rising oceans are poised to redraw the edges of some of the world’s best known coastal cities, turning ...

Follow the Assunpink Creek in New Jersey through woods, concrete sprawl and urban rubble on its way ultimately to the ...

Let's be real. Finding the perfect home can feel like winning the lottery, especially when you spot that dream property with a waterfront view or a price tag that seems too good to be true. Here's the ...

Instead of billion-dollar floodwalls and surge barriers, Hampton, Virginia, is relying on rain gardens, plant-lined storage basins, restored marshes and 3D-printed concrete reefs seeded with oysters.

Record rainfall in October caused significant flooding in Brevard County, damaging homes, cars, and roads. Officials are concerned that extreme weather events are becoming more frequent due to climate ...

Making and maintaining an accurate flood map is neither simple nor inexpensive. Even after an investment of more than $1 billion to take flood maps into the digital world, only 21 percent of the ...

When the rain comes in South Florida, the frantic flooding complaints quickly follow to mayors, commissioners, public works departments, just about whoever will listen: Like this: “How is it possible ...

After years of back and forth, new flood maps with major implications for property owners’ land values, insurance rates and building costs along a watershed stretching from Santa Rosa to Rohnert Park ...

Shirley Howard’s Chicago neighborhood has flooded three times in the last 30 years. But Howard’s mortgage lender never suggested flood insurance. The government says she doesn’t need it. “That is what ...

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 ...

Traffic flows across a temporary bridge after the original was washed away in this summer’s flooding on Mill Street in Plainfield on Sept. 23, 2024. The floodwaters also swept away several apartments ...

Residents whose Hamilton County properties are included in new, more restrictive floodplain maps are being encouraged to contact a flood insurance agent. To view the Effective maps (current, until ...