Floods in USA
The crippling wintertime droughts that struck California from 2013 to 2015, as well as this year’s unusually wet California winter, appear to be associated with the same phenomenon: a distinctive…
U.S. state moves to protect its coast from erosion and floods, while creating jobs and exportable knowledge, reports Megan Rowling. The vibrant U.S. city of New Orleans, famous for its…
New Orleans is working to introduce green infrastructure, which can manage stormwater better, and create jobs into the bargain, says its resilience chief, reports Megan Rowling for Thomson Reuters Foundation.…
Parts of Idaho have seen flooding and landslides over the last few days, caused by persistent rainfall and snowmelt. At least 2 homes have been destroyed and around 100 damaged.…
Work is underway to show the economic benefits of investing to make cities and communities more resilient, by Megan Rowling, Thomson Reuters Foundation NEW ORLEANS, March 13 (Thomson Reuters Foundation)…
Without major efforts to rebuild Louisiana’s wetlands, particularly in the westernmost part of the state, there is little chance that the coast will be able to withstand the accelerating rate…
The City of Houston, Texas, is getting creative with flood control, with new plans to use an old golf course to store as much as 350 million gallons of storm…
Only 40 percent of Americans believe climate change will harm them personally, despite worsening problems with drought, flooding, forest fires and more intense storms. By J.D. Capelouto LONDON, March 1…
Rainfall from spring-like downpours in the U.S. from February 25 to March 1 were analyzed at NASA using data from the Global Precipitation Measurement mission or GPM satellite. Record breaking…
Yet more heavy rain and flooding has been reported in California, this time in the San Diego area where the San Diego river overflowed on 28 February, 2017. Heavy rain…
NASA has estimated rainfall from the Pineapple Express over the coastal regions southwestern Oregon and northern California from the series of storms in February, 2017. The West Coast is once…
Update The mandatory evacuation area in San Jose has been expanded and now includes around 14,00 residents. In a statement earlier today, the City said: “Although the rain has largely…
Irvine, Calif., Feb. 21, 2017 – Global climate change is being felt in many coastal communities of the United States, not always in the form of big weather disasters but…
Southern California was hit with one of the strongest storms in years on Friday 17 February 2017, bringing heavy winds and torrential rain which triggered flooding and mudslides. Meanwhile central…
Satellite imagery captured the beginning of a chain of Eastern Pacific Ocean storms forecast to affect the U.S. West Coast. A close-up satellite view show from Feb. 17 shows a…
Last winter’s El Niño might have felt weak to residents of Southern California, but it was in fact one of the most powerful climate events of the past 145 years.…
