Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Monica Sanders covers climate justice and sustainability from the DMV. As climate change accelerates, so does the need for ...

Researchers at North Carolina State University have created a land change model that simulates interactions between urban growth, increased flooding and how humans adapt in response. The new model ...

Coastal cities face increasing compound flood risks from human mobility patterns under climate change. In this study, we integrated dynamic population distribution models with numerical hydrodynamic ...

Thousands of households in middle Melbourne will be told they are at high risk of flooding during extreme weather following ...

South-east flood modelling based on maths and physics is being derailed by inconsistent council interpretations of state ...

Despite countries pouring billions of dollars into “protecting” communities, flood-related disasters are becoming more frequent and are projected to become even more severe as the climate crisis ...

Inland levees can amplify flood risk in unprotected communities by altering floodwater levels away from their location. While these nonlocal effects of levees, which we term flood teleconnections, ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. George Cheng thinks a lot about flooding. In his home state North Carolina, hurricanes and tropical ...

The river looked calm that morning.No alarms. No flashing warnings. Just water sliding past the ancient stone walls of York as it has done for centuries. And yet, somewhere behind computer screens and ...

New research, led by Postdoctoral Fellow Dr. Lea Dasallas at Te Whare Wānanga o Waitaha | University of Canterbury (UC), shows that even shallow floodwater can be powerful enough to knock people off ...

Flooding remains one of the most misunderstood and underinsured risks facing U.S. homeowners today. What to know about flood ...