The Forest Service says salvage logging is needed to avoid fires. Ecologists and hikers worry that will prioritize profit over ecosystems.

The list of 10 most endangered rivers of 2025, according to the nonprofit American Rivers, includes the Mississippi River and the lower Rio Grande.

A century ago, the cataclysmic floods of 1924 swept away the Aluva-Munnar Road, a rudimentary path once used to haul goods to the Munnar Hills in lumbering bullock carts. The British administration ...

What if it floods while you're on holiday? You'll need to know how to respond if severe weather turns into a flood emergency. Read this before your next trip.  There are a few important steps to take ...

It’s been eight days since torrential rain flooded hundreds of homes all across the Gulf Coast. Lake Forest in Daphne, the ...

ORLANDO, Fla. — According to FEMA, between hurricanes Debby, Helene, and Milton, more than 72,000 national flood insurance claims were filed. Just a month after Hurricane Helene, FEMA reported ...

The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico border. Restoring even a fraction of it could help the region cope with the ravages of a warming world.

The measure would create a wildfire intelligence center to centralize federal management, require assessments of fireshed ...

A group of lawmakers is pushing a bill to enact changes to local development regulations, including allowing developers to ...

We wanted to know about the environmental impact of our recent floods. So we visited a floodplain with a local conservation ...

Two disasters struck a home in Daphne’s Lake Forest neighborhood. After flash flooding on Sunday, the water damage caused a fire late Monday. “It sucks when it ...

Whether or not logging would solve the wildfire problem is contentious. Many U.S. forests are considered to be at high wildfire risk, due to climate change and almost a century of wildfire suppression ...