floods
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Severe flooding at Pine Ridge Reservation ‘a humanitarian disaster’
While flood recovery is underway in other parts of the Midwest, South Dakota's Oglala Sioux Tribe is still treading water.
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Your future home could be in a flood zone — and no one’s required to tell you
Many Americans have no idea whether their property is likely to flood. Better flood risk disclosure laws could help end the cycle of flooding and rebuilding.
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Crazy floods hit the Midwest when hardly anyone was looking
In northern Indiana, people kayaked across grocery store parking lots.
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Explosions strike chemical plant after floods in Crosby, Texas
Officials downplayed the environmental and public health risks from the plant.
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Harvey’s record rains triggered Houston dams to overflow
The city's aging flood reservoirs have been pushed to the limit twice in two years.
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Watch a burning house float away in an epic flood
West Virginia is flooding in a pretty terrifying way.
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Climate change is already causing dramatic flooding in the coastal U.S.
Sea level is rising faster than ever before -- and it's already responsible for three-quarters of coastal floods in the U.S.
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Letter from Texas: Floods didn’t drown the drought
Even before the rubble from the floods has had time to settle, the water’s effect on the drought has already started to recede.
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The forecast for the next century? Scary with a chance of dying
Wait just one second: Is this a study that focuses on the actual, meaningful impacts that climate change will have on the lives of humans?