Scholars and designers of early warning systems say that there are still huge gaps in our ability to predict flash floods and ...

Two days after deadly Texas floods, the agency struggled to answer calls from survivors because of call center contracts that ...

Immigrant workers are central to recovery efforts in neighborhoods burned in the January wildfires, but recent raids have led ...

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Our response to floods has been inadequate, if not misdirected. And now, owing to the heating climate, floods will be growing ...

President Trump and the first lady, Melania Trump, traveled today to Central Texas to visit sites along the Guadalupe River ...

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A 4.3-magnitude earthquake jolted a lake shoreline Friday, July 11, in Southern California, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. Then dozens of smaller quakes followed. The 6.5-mile-deep quake hit ...

School principal Yoshiro Tobo is one of the few people left on his remote Japanese island, where the earth is constantly ...

A swarm of earthquakes has struck Southern California near a major fault line that could unleash the infamous 'Big One' and ...