By 2050, sea levels along the United States coast are expected to rise by 0.25 to 0.30 meters, increasing flooding in ...

Multiple factors contribute to flood risk. The most important weather-related factors include how extreme a rainfall event is and how wet catchments are prior to the rain event. In estuarine and ...

Officials are cautioning residents to check whether they live in a tsunami zone ahead of Tsunami Preparedness Week, and there ...

The most recent risk assessment, outlined in maps published by the California Geological Survey, illustrate the devastation ...

California isn’t the only coastal oasis that’s at risk of submersion. Scientists have revealed that certain regions on the island of Oahu, Hawaii are sinking into the sea 40 times faster than ...

U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D-WI) and a group of her colleagues are pressing the National Oceanic and Atmospheric ...

The risk of damaging flooding from a major tsunami may be greater ... To the south, some coastal communities along Highway 1 in San Mateo County are in a tsunami hazard zone — such as parts ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has uncharacteristically been working with nature instead of bulldozing it into submission. Will this enlightened approach prevail?

Warm weather, rain bring small ice jams to central, western Maine Emergency management officials and weather forecasters were keeping an eye on the rivers in western and central Maine as a storm ...