The floods that affected Western Maryland in May upended people’s lives and left many of our neighbors struggling to recover. The damage was substantial, and the recovery is ongoing. There are lessons ...

Searchers looked through a car in the Big Thompson River three miles west of Loveland, Colo., in this Aug. 5, 1976 file photo. DAVE BURESH / AP A year’s worth of precipitation fell in a little over an ...

San Marcos Assistant Fire Chief Jim Matano is no stranger to flash flooding in San Marcos. The city's proximity to the Blanco ...

IOWA CITY, Iowa — Don Guckert’s job is keeping the buildings on the University of Iowa’s charming campus up and running, and safe. His most important lessons came from the worst days of his career, in ...

Press release from the American Flood Coalition: Last week, a delegation of local leaders from Western North Carolina traveled to Kerr County, Texas, to exchange flood recovery lessons in the wake of ...

At least 52 people have been killed in Nepal due to landslides and floods triggered by heavy rainfall that started late last week along the Chure Hills and Madhes province before it moved to the ...

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Years ago I covered local news in a rural stretch of Florida’s Gulf coast, and the county administrator there — an engineer by trade, well regarded in the community — told me the final thing he would ...

As a desperate search for survivors continues in the areas of Texas walloped by weekend floods, one reality persists: Americans and their properties are not prepared for the severe-weather impacts of ...

In 2004, Aceh was hardest hit by the Indian Ocean tsunami. In 2025, Indonesia’s most disaster-aware province was among the ...

It was in 2005 that the most debilitating floods took place in Mumbai in 2005 on July 26, resulting in a loss of over a thousand lives. Yet two decades down the line, what has changed? Not the floods; ...