Climate Lab is a Seattle Times initiative that explores the effects of climate change in the Pacific Northwest and beyond. The project is funded in part by The Bullitt Foundation, CO2 Foundation, Jim ...

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Galveston District has named 16 companies to compete for task orders under a $900 million contract covering a broad range of engineering services. The Potomac Officers ...

Refugio County commissioners on Tuesday heard a proposal from the Nueces River Authority to join a multi-county effort to modernize floodplain maps and improve regional flood modeling, but the court ...

Even after Hurricane Harvey exposed the dangers of building in flood-prone areas, tens of thousands of new homes have continued to rise in Greater Houston’s high-risk flood zones. A Houston Chronicle ...

From left to right, Jim Blackburn, Rice President Reginald DesRoches and Phil Bedient. Rice University’s Severe Storm Prediction, Education and Evacuation from Disasters (SSPEED) Center convened more ...

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — Residents who have vowed to fight the Northeast Ohio Regional Sewer District’s proposal to drain Horseshoe Lake and Lower Shaker Lake fired their first legal shot Tuesday, ...

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Since 2017's Hurricane Harvey, one in five new homes built across the Houston region has been built in the floodplains, according to a Houston Chronicle’s property records analysis. Experts say this ...

The Clear Fork section of the Trinity, pictured on Oct. 1, 2022. Benbrook residents fear what a new development in the waterway’s floodplain will mean. Woody Frossard Courtesy Stand at the south end ...

Ryan Reagan of Benbrook doesn’t necessarily consider himself an environmental crusader. He understands progress and understands why his city, a growing suburb on the western edge of Fort Worth, would ...

SHAKER HEIGHTS, Ohio — Dozens of residents packed Shaker Heights City Hall on Monday night to hear sewer district officials explain their sudden reversal this summer in recommending the removal of the ...