River gauges, sirens and clear alerts can together help emergency managers anticipate flash floods and communicate ...

Oceans comprise about 96.5% of the water-covered surface (71%) of the Earth. Surprisingly, the salinity of these huge bodies ...

More flood gauges, better warning systems, a high-tech flood warning system — and other measures that Rice University’s ...

Eastgate Crossing and University Place were built in floodplains, and on top of a creek, before there were stormwater ...

Gauge Bryant was playing on the dock with his cousin around 3 p.m. when a panicked mother approached, searching for her missing 11-year-old son. The boy had slipped beneath the surface of the lake and ...

Everett Firefighters say an 11-year-old boy is recovering after he fell off the Thornton Park dock and got caught underwater ...

Scan a modern sea-surface-temperature map and it looks like a painter spilled warm colors across the planet —except for one ...

A federally funded project at Rice University is trying to tackle that problem, but in just two counties so far.

A 13-year-old from Sedro-Woolley is being hailed as a hero after rescuing an 11-year-old that nearly drowned at Silver Lake ...

Canyon Lake’s surface elevation has risen by more than 11 feet since the July 4 floods, resulting in the highest lake levels in almost two years.

As of Monday, July 7, access to the Comal River in New Braunfels remains closed due to unsafe conditions following heavy rain ...

The deluge that surged through Central Texas over the Fourth of July weekend devastated the hill country and shocked the ...