Rikers Island in the Bronx, New York, made the list due to its extreme vulnerability to flooding. Lincoln, Wyoming, was...
Articles by Leslie Kaufman
A midsummer quiz: Let’s say you read about an area experiencing blistering heat for weeks on end. Heat so hot...
A summer that has already seen water crises and wildfire smoke is rapidly becoming an inflection point in the pitched...
The free digital tool that the US government gives communities to help evaluate local risks from 18 natural hazards is...
There are more than 170 trillion tiny plastic particles — or 2 million tons of them — floating on the...
Is it possible to predict exactly where the wind will blow? How about where it will blow 30 years from...
In a quiet commercial strip in an upscale suburb of Nashville, there’s a single-story brick building housing a company that...
Homeowners in the US got new guidance to help them defend against increasingly frequent wildfires and associated rising insurance premiums....
When the Federal Emergency Management Agency rolled out a major overhaul to its beleaguered National Flood Insurance Program last April,...
The federal government Friday rolled out a flood-insurance program revamped to reflect worsening climate change, a program that will raise...