according to a 2021 University of Texas Bureau of Economic Geology report for the Texas General Land Office. Reem Zoun, director of flood planning at the TWDB, said that to decide how to prevent ...

The Kentucky Geological Survey is researching how to predict floods and landslides amid more extreme weather statewide.

That's because of the area's geology. The coastal Pacific Northwest is a subduction ... land that would end up in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) 100-year floodplain if a magnitude 8 ...

By luck of geology, the Pacific Northwest coast isn’t being hit nearly as hard as other areas of the world by climate change-driven sea level rise.

The river's floodplain forests grow in rich, complex soils; provide safe resting grounds and food sources for hundreds of bird, insect, fish and other animal species; store carbon and retain ...

A study from the University of Miami found that over 2 million acres of floodplain have been developed in the U.S. over the past 20 years. Florida had the highest new floodplain housing, with about ...

In the first city commission meeting since the storm, the city Planning and Zoning Commission met Dec. 4, hearing a presentation about the flood impacted city properties in designated Special ...