floods

Promising to Prevent Floods at Treasure Island, Builders Downplay Risk of Sea Rise

One environmental model predicts that by 2100, stormwater could threaten a neighborhood now under construction. Protecting the community depends on extreme waterfront engineering decades into the future.

By Kristi Coale, San Francisco Public Press

Kentucky Residents Angered by US Forest Service Logging Plan That Targets Mature Trees

By Marianne Lavelle

In Pakistan, 33 Million People Have Been Displaced by Climate-Intensified Floods

By Zoha Tunio

With Epic Flooding in Eastern Kentucky, the State’s Governor Wants to Know ‘Why We Keep Getting Hit’

By James Bruggers

US Taxpayers Are Spending Billions on Crop Insurance Premiums to Prop Up Farmers on Frequently Flooded, Unproductive Land

By Georgina Gustin

The Year in Climate Photos

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Raging Flood Waters Driven by Climate Change Threaten the Trans-Alaska Pipeline

By David Hasemyer

World Meteorological Organization Sharpens Warnings About Both Too Much and Too Little Water

By Bob Berwyn

In a Summer of Deadly Deluges, New Research Shows How Global Warming Fuels Flooding

By Bob Berwyn

Battered, Flooded and Submerged: Many Superfund Sites are Dangerously Threatened by Climate Change

By DAVID HASEMYER, INSIDECLIMATE NEWS, AND LISE OLSEN, TEXAS OBSERVER

The Society of Professional Journalists Recognizes “American Climate” for Distinguished Reporting

By Vernon Loeb

Paying for Extreme Weather: Wildfire, Hurricanes, Floods and Droughts Quadrupled in Cost Since 1980

By Bob Berwyn

American Climate Video: Floodwaters Test the Staying Power of a ‘Determined Man’

By Katelyn Weisbrod

A Proud California Dairy Farmer Battles for Survival in Wildly Uncertain Times

By Evelyn Nieves

American Climate Video: The Creek Flooded Nearly Every Spring, but This Time the Water Kept Rising

By Katelyn Weisbrod

American Climate: The Family Home Had Gone Untouched by Floods for Over 80 Years, Until the Levee Breached

By Katelyn Weisbrod

In Michigan, Dams Plus Climate Change Equals a Disastrous Mix

By Bob Berwyn

The Canals Are Clear Thanks to the Coronavirus, But Venice’s Existential Threat Is Climate Change

By SARA MORACA

American Climate: After a Deadly Flood That Was ‘Like a Hurricane,’ a Rancher Mourns the Loss of His Cattle

By Katelyn Weisbrod