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)…
In the days before Hurricane Matthew, researchers used satellite maps of soil moisture to help forecast where the power would go out along the East Coast. At the American Geophysical…
As the Atlantic, eastern Pacific and central Pacific 2016 hurricane seasons end today, NOAA scientists said that all three regions saw above-normal seasons. For the Atlantic, this was the first…
FAIRFIELD, Conn., Oct. 19, 2016 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Scores of flooded child care centers in North and South Carolina cannot tap official disaster recovery support, putting children’s safety and wellbeing at…
The North Carolina Emergency Management officials confirmed yesterday that the number of deaths in the state attributed to Hurricane Matthew now stands at 26. Officials added that, as of early…
NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland has produced a rainfall analysis from Hurricane Matthew. It was accomplished using data from NASA’s Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for GPM (IMERG). The…
Hurricane Matthew has flooded parts of Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina over the last 3 days after bringing torrential rain and storm surges, as well as high winds.…
Hurricane Matthew made landfall as a Category 4 hurricane near Les Anglais in the Sud Department of Haiti during the morning of 04 October 2016. The storm dropped significant amounts…
The U.S. National Flood Insurance Program, which holds policies for more than 5 million homes, is $23 billion in debt after a string of natural disasters this century. As climate…
Hurricane Hermine made landfall near St Marks, on the gulf coast of Florida at 01:30 EDT on Friday 02 September. It was downgraded to a post-tropical storm on 03 September.…
Six people have now been reported to have died in flooding that has affected parts of Texas since 26 May 2016. On Sunday 29 May, 2016, a woman died after…
Earlier today, Hiscox, the international specialist insurer, issued its Interim Management Statement for the first nine months of the year to 30 September 2015. The statement said that Hiscox had…
A king tide combined with persistent onshore winds led to coastal flooding across parts of South Carolina, Georgia, Florida and Louisiana on 27 and 28 October 2015, causing some localized…
In the wake of flash flood disasters in southern France, South Carolina and Guatemala, the UN called for more action to reduce the risk of flash floods in urban areas.…
In their latest statement on the current flood disaster affecting wide areas of the state, South Carolina Department of Public Safety said that at least 15 people have died as…
Unprecedented rainfall brought deadly floods to parts of South Carolina on Saturday 03 October and Sunday 04 October 2015. Rainfall records have been broken. Some areas of South Carolina have…
