Communities trying to fight sea-level rise could inadvertently make flooding worse for their neighbors, according to a new study from the Stanford Natural Capital Project. The research, published in Proceedings…
A powerful storm brought heavy rain, snow and strong winds to parts of California on 27 January 2021. This is the third storm to affect the area in recent days.…
Wildfires don’t stop being dangerous after the flames go out. Even one modest rainfall after a fire can cause a deadly landslide, according to new UC Riverside research. “When fire…
Many coastal areas of the United States could see floods that now happen about twice a century occur almost daily by the turn of the century, as ocean levels rise…
As the world warms and precipitation that would have generated snowpack instead creates rain, the western U.S. could see larger floods, according to new Stanford research. An analysis of over…
Ask people to name the world’s largest river, and most will probably guess that it’s the Amazon, the Nile or the Mississippi. In fact, some of Earth’s largest rivers are…
Atmospheric rivers pose a $1 billion-a-year flood risk in the West, according to a new study. Researchers at Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego and…
Heavy rain caused flash flooding in parts of southwest USA from 29 November, 2019. In a tragic incident, 2 children died and one is still missing after raging waters of…
A new study claims that sea-level rises in the United States will require the construction of more than 50,000 miles (80,000km) of coastal barriers in 22 states by 2040, a…
Rivers in northern California are still high after record-breaking rain brought by an atmospheric river earlier this week. One man has died after being swept away by flood water from…
Heavy rain brought by an atmospheric river caused river levels to increase dramatically in Northern California from 26 February, 2019. NWS Bay Area said that Venado in Sonoma County has…
A winter storm has dumped more than 9 inches / 228.6 mm of rain in parts of California, causing flooding and mudslides. Flash flood watches were in effect for much…
A second storm in a week has caused further flooding and mudslides in California, USA. Following the storm earlier this week that affected burn scar areas in northern California, a…
Flash flooding affected fire-scarred areas of Northern California on Thursday, 29 November, 2018. People were rescued from flooded homes and vehicles trapped in flooding near Paradise and Chico in Butte…
The remnants of Hurricane Rosa brought heavy rain and flooding to parts of Mexico and Arizona USA from 01 October 2018. Hurricane Rosa formed in the East Pacific and reached…
A study by researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) predicts dramatic shifts between extreme dry and extreme wet weather in California by end of 21st century, something…
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