Africa, Environment Climate change, urbanization increases flooding in Africa People are creating flood-prone environments, according to experts ...

These factors, especially in the Balcones Escarpment landscape in Central Texas, make Flash Flood Alley one of the most flood ...

New Orleans unveiled a web application called Streetwise shortly after the Aug. 5 flood last year to help residents track flooding and accidents in real time. NPR reports several other flood-prone ...

In 2015, more than 11% of built-up areas globally faced high or very high flood risk, meaning areas at risk of flooding depths of at least 50 cm (17 inches) during 1-in-100-year flooding events ...

Lack of proper urban planning has been blamed for the reoccurring cases of flooding in most cities across Nigeria. Prof. Ibrahim Yari Mallo of the University of Abuja stated this in a lead ...

The odds of being hit again by a large flood are higher for cities that have already been flooded before. Here’s why we still don’t move away.

The populations of flood-prone areas are growing faster ... Xinxiang city, in China's central Henan ... up to 32.8 million people are exposed, an 11% increase from 2000. Western Africa, ...

Londoners are characteristically blasé about their flood-prone city, but the tidal Thames River, ... Track her from her birth off Africa to her clash with the Gulf Coast.

As the world rapidly urbanizes, the amount of building in flood-prone areas is soaring, according to new research, sparking concerns about people’s vulnerability to disasters as the climate ...