Entries Tagged Flooding

New research, launched recently by global professional services company GHD, titled “Aquanomics: The economics of water risk and future resilience” reveals droughts,...

Flooding in urban areas cost Americans more than $106 billion between 1960 and 2016, damaging property, disrupting businesses and claiming lives in the...

For the seventh year in a row, University of Arizona hurricane forecasters say to prepare for an above-average hurricane season, which runs...

A one-two punch of precipitation resulted in damage to Oroville Dam's main and emergency spillways pushing the second largest dam in California...

Tens of millions of people in the United States live in areas at risk of coastal flooding, and even more are moving...

A Western University flood-control expert has developed the first Canada-wide maps showing how floodplains — including low-lying areas of major cities like Vancouver and...

Increased drain cleaning will be vital to preventing flooding issues in New York City’s subway system in the future. According to the New York...

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have created a balance sheet for water across the United States — tracking total...

Storm surges can be deadly coastal hazards, but the current historical tide gauge data that is needed to better understand them, and...

Scientists are observing changes in the Earth’s climate in every region and across the whole climate system, according to the latest Intergovernmental...

While Earth’s freshwater resources are finite, the challenge of effectively and sustainably managing them as we head into a warmer future with...

Although floods are consistently ranked among the leading causes of natural disaster losses and fatalities, there has been a major gap in...

When rain began falling in northern Georgia Sept. 15, 2009, little did Atlantans know they would witness epic flooding throughout the city....

To decrease flooding and sewer overflows in three southeastern neighborhoods in Atlanta, officials in the city’s Department of Watershed Management opted for...