Severe storms threaten the Deep South today in a swath from Oklahoma to Virginia. The main concern for cities like Memphis, Atlanta and Birmingham is damaging winds, but large hail and isolated ...

While the Paris Agreement set a goal to limit human-induced warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels, the ...

The Amazon’s dry season, made drier by climate change, cuts off river access to hospitals for many rural people – but women with traditional skills are closer to hand ...

While environmentalists remain stuck on policies that've achieved success, the pragmatists seem to have resigned themselves ...

CAXIUANA NATIONAL FOREST, Brazil (AP) — A short walk beneath the dense Amazon canopy, the forest abruptly opens up. Fallen ...

Until now, tracking the speed and height of dangerous river flood waves was something scientists could only do from the ground. A new study shows that this is changing. For the first time, satellite ...

It pales in lushness to the mighty Amazon rainforest to the north ... feed the headwaters of eight of the 12 major river basins in South America. The Cerrado’s underground tanks pump water ...

Communities across Washington County are cleaning up after a weekend of severe rainfall led to flooding in several areas. One of the hardest-hit of those communities was Waitsfield. On Saturday ...

FULTON COUNTY, Ark. (KAIT) - With Memorial Day around the corner, many plan to cool off on the river, but with recent historic flooding, what should people keep in mind? Sonny Chaffin gears up for ...

That includes all of Brazil’s Legal Amazon region, more than 85% of the Peruvian Amazon ... road to ease traffic that cuts through rainforest. California’s investments in its Lithium Valley, where ...

The basin is no stranger to riverine, coastal, backwater or flash flooding. In 2016, we saw all of it. The system overloaded. The Comite River, Bayou Manchac, Ward Creek, Blind River and many ...

Not surprisingly, these atmospheric rivers will hold more moisture in the warming climate, increasing the risk from stream and river flooding, and in turn, the costs to recover from the flooding.