On average, it takes five to seven years to develop and implement a new FEMA Flood Insurance Rate Map. As a result, many maps across the U.S. are significantly out of date, often failing to reflect ...

Popularized by the Netflix docuseries Wild Wild Country, the Rajneeshees (followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh) founded a commune called Rajneeshpuram in central Oregon during the '80s. They fought ...

Such chauvinist language is nasty, and reflects the state of environmental discourse in Brazil today. Since Ms Silva’s last ...

Though natural disasters cycle across seasons and regions in the U.S., it’s often a shocking discovery for property owners ...

Over the July Fourth weekend, the Texas Hill Country experienced catastrophic flooding that killed more than 100 people, left ...

The big news this spring is AmaWaterways' first cruises in Colombia. But it is not the only line with South America on its ...

Several Texas State Parks have temporarily closed as park staff evaluate the damage caused by the catastrophic floods over ...

It’s not as simple as it sounds—between new measurements, hidden tributaries, and satellite data, the battle for the world’s ...

Wireless Emergency Alerts are limited to flash flood warnings when there is a "threat tag" of considerable or catastrophic.

It was about 1 a.m. on the Fourth of July when the facilities manager at a central Texas summer camp saw water from the ...

Additional rounds of heavy rains lasting into Tuesday could produce more dangerous flooding, especially in places already ...

As oil companies push for drilling on the Amazon coast, an underwater war silences the ocean’s most vocal creatures.