Climate change has made extreme rainfall more common and more intense. But many flood risk maps have yet to catch up.

Days after flash flooding turned some D.C. and Montgomery County streets into small rivers and walking trails into ponds, ...

While FEMA has improved the accuracy and accessibility of the maps over time with better data, digital tools and community ...

Extreme weather seems to make the headlines almost every week, as disasters increasingly strike out of season, break records, and hit places they never have before. Decades of scientific research has ...

In a world increasingly shaped by climate extremes, environmental experts are delivering a blunt warning: four rapidly ...

Texas state climatologist John Nielsen-Gammon said the deadly flooding in Kerr County over July Fourth weekend was not caused ...

Here is the central issue as the Texas Legislature deliberates: Republican lawmakers, so loath to utter the words “climate ...

As climate change increases the frequency of environmental disasters, experts say federal cuts could leave California and other states vulnerable in the years ahead.

Climate change is raising the risk of dangerous flooding, especially in coastal communities. For some towns on the Jersey Shore, the most practical solution is raising homes off the ground.

Floods recorded in Aboriginal oral history centuries ago could help scientists better understand how climate change may ...